During the 2015 election, the Government Department created LSE’s General Election blog, which drew on the contributions of hundreds of authors in LSE and outside to provide focused coverage of the election itself (going far beyond the coverage capabilities of the British Politics and Policy blog) and also incorporating many contributions from our sister blogs, including commentary at the Democratic Audit and the statistical background to the general election at Democratic Dashboard. The General Election site was always intended to be temporary, and so we ceased coverage a month after the election finished.
However, all the content now forms part of our long-run and permanently archived heritage here on the British Politics and Policy blog, reflecting LSE Government Department’s commitment to building free and open access resources available to scholars and citizens long term.
We sincerely thank all of the many authors who contributed here, and all the scholars, practitioners, citizens and followers who commented and created a great debate around the blog during the campaign period.
Update News: Thanks to funding from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust and LSE’s HEIF5 fund, the Democratic Dashboard will be covering all the UK’s major elections in May 2016, and refreshing our General Election 2015 constituency archive, so as to be ready for the 2020 general election.
General Election 2015 blog posts
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British Politics and Policy at LSE - Published on April 30, 2015 by LSE BPPIn this article, Geoffrey Evans and Jonathan Mellon examine the voting history of UKIP supporters, finding that the party is attracting, primarily, disaffected former Labour voters from the ...more
British Politics and Policy at LSE - Published on April 29, 2015 by LSE BPPLast month, election forecasters presented preliminary predictions for the British election at the LSE. In this post, Mary Stegmaier and Laron Williams, both from the ...more
British Politics and Policy at LSE - Published on April 29, 2015 by LSE BPP
The changes to Westminster politics in Scotland in 2015 are likely to be without historical precedent. In this post, James Dennison discusses the implications of ...more
British Politics and Policy at LSE - Published on April 28, 2015 by LSE BPP
Voters are again looking beyond the traditional two-party system and look set to put paid to a famous proposition of political science, 'Duverger's Law', writes Patrick ...more
British Politics and Policy at LSE - Published on April 28, 2015 by LSE BPPThroughout the short campaign, this blog has been publishing a series of posts that focus on each of the electoral regions in the UK. In this ...more
British Politics and Policy at LSE - Published on April 28, 2015 by LSE BPPIn this post, Niall Hughes argues that FPTP electoral system performs much better in the context of multi-party politics. Crucially, in a general election a voter’s preferred candidate ...more
British Politics and Policy at LSE - Published on April 27, 2015 by LSE BPPOverall, the manifestos confirm that all parties are unwilling to face up to the political problems they perceive would follow if they advocated solutions that ...more
British Politics and Policy at LSE - Published on April 27, 2015 by LSE BPPUniversity financing has again emerged as a key battleground issue. Should fees be regulated lower and if so, how will the cost be financed? Gill ...more
British Politics and Policy at LSE - Published on April 25, 2015 by LSE BPPIn the general election debate about healthcare, all the parties are seeking to portray an NHS protected from major public sector expenditure cuts, with expansion ...more
British Politics and Policy at LSE - Published on April 24, 2015 by LSE BPPThe UK has led the way in the inclusion of out LGBT politicians in Westminster. In this post, Andrew Reynolds presents the findings of a recent report ...more