{"id":62,"date":"2012-07-20T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T18:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imediapixel.com\/demo\/avanix\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2018-03-09T14:56:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T14:56:50","slug":"company-profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/?page_id=62","title":{"rendered":"The Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over four decades the Centre has established a reputation\u00a0across a broad range of organisations across government, political parties and the media.<\/p>\n<p>Best known for its comprehensive database of local election results the Centre also works on parliamentary and other elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre\u2019s Directors, Professors Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, are regular contributors\u00a0to national media. They write for <em>The Sunday Times, Local Government Chronicle<\/em>, and the Local Government Association\u2019s<em> First <\/em>magazine<em>,<\/em> and have had a significant presence on ITV and Sky News since 1989 and formed part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/generalelection\/election-results-just-how-did-the-exit-poll-manage-to-get-it-so-right-10254368.html\" target=\"_blank\">exit poll team<\/a> that announced the surprise outcome of the 2015 and 2017 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Rallings and Thrasher were awarded the\u00a0prestigious Political Studies Association national award in 2007 for \u2018crucial work on elections over a sustained period\u2019 combining \u2018academically rigorous study with rare communicative skills\u2019.  <\/p>\n<p>In 2018 they received the judges&#8217; award from the Royal Television Society for their work in broadcasting the results of the exit polls.<\/p>\n<p>A <em>Guardian<\/em> editorial (&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/may\/01\/in-praise-rallings-thrasher\" target=\"_blank\">In praise of&#8230;Rallings and Thrasher<\/a>, 02\/05\/2013) attested to their long and \u2018distinguished record\u2026in illuminating British democracy\u2019.<\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_3356\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 137px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Rallings-Thrasher-PSA-communication-award.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3356\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Rallings-Thrasher-PSA-communication-award.jpg?resize=127%2C85&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rallings and Thrasher receiving their PSA communication award from Jackie Ashley\" width=\"127\" height=\"85\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Rallings and Thrasher receiving the PSA communication award from Jackie Ashley<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>The Centre\u2019s work is underpinned by research.\u00a0 Along with their collaborator, Dr Galina Borisyuk, research papers\u00a0examine\u00a0the nature and operation of electoral bias in UK parliamentary elections (with Ron Johnston of Bristol University), the effects of candidate appearance on voting (with Susan Banducci and Jeff Karp of Exeter University), the ethnic origins of candidates and patterns of voter support (with Richard Webber of OriginsInfo), mayoral elections (with David Cowling, former Head of Political Research, BBC and Research Fellow, Kings College), split-ticket voting, and with Scott Orford of Cardiff University a series of papers considering\u00a0voter participation and distance to polling stations.<\/p>\n<p>[col_13_last]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorem ipsum dolor consectetur libero et leo rhoncus vel ultricies ante eget tortor mattis mollis mattis ac<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5YXV0-10","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3949,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/3949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}