A Short Guide to the Supplementary Vote  

The Data Archive The Elections Centre has a extensive data archive, more than 1 million items at candidate-level. There is a comprehensive collection of local electoral results from the 19th century to date.  

The Centre conducts research in both academic and applied fields. In 2007 Rallings and Thrasher received the Political Studies Association (PSA) Communication award ‘in recognition of their crucial work on elections over a sustained period of time’. The Centre has provided input to House of Commons Select Committees. These include the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee […]

Television interview for ITN by Colin Rallings – 1st March 2013

Colin Rallings, ITV Elections Analyst on 1st March 2013 The wider political impact of parliamentary by-elections often turns out to be more important than the actual result – and Eastleigh is likely to be no exception to that rule. Both the coalition parties saw their share of the vote drop by about a third compared […]