The Elections Centre Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher are Associate Members of Nuffield College, Oxford. Our aim in creating this website is to establish a major resource for local election data in the UK. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS: It’s taken us a while but then we were collecting details for almost 25,000 candidates contesting over […]
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Michael Thrasher is Professor of Politics at Plymouth University. His main research interests include voting systems, the decomposition of electoral bias, electoral forecasting and patterns of local election voting. In recent years he has also conducted surveys of local election candidates that have identified the types of people that stand and their motives for standing. […]
Colin Rallings is Professor of Politics at Plymouth University. Co-founder of the Elections Centre his current research interests include split-ticket voting, voting behaviour in local government elections and factors affecting electoral participation. Beginning with the parliamentary constituency boundary changes introduced prior to the 1997 general election he has constructed the notional results which […]
Dr Galina Borisyuk is Lecturer in Advanced Quantitative Methods at Plymouth University and a graduate of Moscow State University in Mathematics, Probability Theory and Statistics. Her current research interests include the development of new methods for measuring and decomposing electoral bias in a three-party system, electoral forecasting using aggregate local electoral data and various […]
Brian Cheal is Senior Officer Data Administration in the Elections Centre. He holds a Master’s degree in Social Research and has worked on a wide range of projections within the Centre almost since its inception. A long-time member of the Association of Electoral Administrators his primary responsibilities currently lie with planning and preparation for each annual round of […]
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