👀 Sneak preview of the @skynews studio for election night. It's pretty cool. We've taken over the Sky Sports Premier League MNF studio and we'll be filling it with election graphics. Here's a little sequence about the exit poll and why it's quite a big deal 👇

What impact will the high-profile embarrassments have on voter confidence come Thursday? More of my thoughts in my latest article for Sky here: news.sky.com/story/election… Follow The Elections Centre #CampaignTrail #Leadership #PoliticalInsights

"Will there be a gender gap in the 2024 General Election?" This brilliant piece by Anna Sanders & Dr Ceri Fowler expplores the question. Well worth a read

And here's a smoothed vote share-by-age graph. Crossover point (Lab 1st to Cons 1st) is age 65. Only the LDs appeal about the same rate across all age groups. Green is second choice all the way up to late 20s. Reform really not a thing for young people, at least in our data.

As we gear up for the 2024 general election, here's a review of the latest polling data. With Labour leading at 42% & Conservatives at 21% the margins are closer than they've ever been. Check out our insights from The Elections Centre What are your thoughts on these projections?

This is a funny 🧵Ruth Davidson hasn’t stopped pulling my leg about my mispronouncation of Haribo 🫣😅

Curious about the #exitpoll2024 and how it will be calculated? Dr. Hannah Bunting from Exeter Politics has the answers to your questions! 🗳️ theconversation.com/the-exit-poll-…

"What we're seeing before us now is something which has never happened in British political history." Patrick English talks to Sophy Ridge about the final YouGov poll before Thursday's election, which projects a landslide victory for Labour. Latest 🔗 trib.al/Hkhz4Pn

For this last MRP before the big day - see how the projections have changed over time, including some very flip floppy seats!

Voting is well underway in the UK #GeneralElection24. A massive thank you to all #localgov electoral staff for the incredible amount of work that has gone on behind the scenes over the last few weeks and in the hours to come. AEA

Don’t forget your photo ID! Off to cast my vote now, then heading to London to be part of Sky News coverage. #generalection2024 🗳️

I do think there’s something simple-but-overlooked here: 34% is a low winning vote share in a 2.5-party system. Not so much in a 3.5-4 party system.

I think this is quite interesting. The left panel shows how much of an outlier the Labour result in the 2024 election was, not just compared with earlier UK but all FPTP elections. The right panel shows how much more the result resembles the FPTP element of MMP systems. 🧵

🗳️ Dr. Hannah Bunting of Exeter Politics explains how parties competing in a winner-takes-all system secured a landslide for #KeirStarmer and the UK #Labour party with just a third of the popular support. #UKelections2024 bit.ly/4cZMYeH

Today we’re highlighting another open access article by Dr Lotte Hargrave and Jessica C. Smith, “Working Hard or Hardly Working? Gender and Voter Evaluations of Legislator Productivity.” Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Really pleased to have contributed to this volume alongside a host of excellent colleagues. With such a quick turnaround, the report provides lots of thought provoking analysis on the election we’ve just experienced — a great resource for reading lists too.