The Electoral State of the Parties, 1: Labour

Posted on 26 August 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

As I did last year, I’m going to use this period – roughly the end of the summer holidays, with the Assembly due to reconvene soon and the main party conferences also approaching shortly – to take stock of the electoral performance and prospects of the main political parties in Wales. How have they fared
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Coming Soon…

Posted on 22 August 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

Starting next week – though probably not on Bank Holiday Monday – I’ll be publishing a series of blog posts assessing the Electoral State of the Parties. As with the equivalent series last year, I’ve timed this set of pieces for what I consider the start of the new political year: the end of the
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A brief note on constitutional insanity

Posted on 18 August 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  We know that, barring something truly extraordinary, there will be a UK general election on 7th May 2015. That election will consume much of the attention of politics watchers over the next few months, and of course there will be discussion of various aspects of it here on Elections in Wales. We don’t yet
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Plaid Cymru’s Strategic Dilemma

Posted on 11 August 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  For members and supporters of Plaid Cymru, the devolution years have been a strange mix of achievement and failure, fulfilment and frustration. The positives are considerable. First and foremost must be the creation of an elected Welsh legislature and the significant extension of its powers after the 2011 referendum. Also of great importance is
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On Uniform National Swing

Posted on 5 August 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  One welcome development in Welsh political life and electoral analysis over the last year has been the growth in regular political polling. We now have more regularly reported measures of party preferences and public attitudes. In discussing the results of those polls, one topic that has cropped up quite frequently, both in Comments on
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