{"id":1777,"date":"2013-05-07T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pbs.plymouth.ac.uk\/teamweb\/electionscentre\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2013-05-07T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T12:00:40","slug":"analysis-the-ukip-surge-that-shook-local-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: The UKIP surge that shook local government"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>by <strong>Colin Rallings<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Michael Thrasher<\/strong>, Elections Centre, Plymouth University &#8211; 7th May 2013<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The extent of the Ukip surge in last week\u2019s local elections took everyone by surprise.\u00a0It deprived the Conservatives of votes and seats; emphasised the degree to which the Liberal Democrats now find it hard to compete across the country; and denied Labour the unambiguous victory that should be the leading opposition party\u2019s due in mid-term&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgcplus.com\/news\/analysis-the-ukip-surge-that-shook-local-government\/5058300.article\">click here to continue to the original article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgcplus.com\/news\/analysis-the-ukip-surge-that-shook-local-government\/5058300.article\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1147\" alt=\"LGC\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pbs.plymouth.ac.uk\/teamweb\/electionscentre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/LGClogo-300x172.jpg?resize=300%2C172\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Colin Rallings &amp; Michael Thrasher, Elections Centre, Plymouth University &#8211; 7th May 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,23,13,7,8,11],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5YXV0-sF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}