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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Citizens forecast a hung parliament with the Conservatives as the largest party
Can citizens forecast the outcome of the UK election? In this post, Andreas Murr presents the results of his forecasting model, which predicts constituency level ...more
What would the election look like under PR?
The further fragmentation of the UK’s party system in 2015 is likely to lead to the most disproportionate outcome of any election in the post-war ...more
Gender and the UK labour market: The evidence on whether 'family-friendly' policies can make a difference
While there has been improvement over the last couple of decades, there remains large 'gender gaps' in employment and wages. Ghazala Azmat explores the evidence on the key ...more
Voter power to the people?
Of the many indicators of various kinds hosted on the constituency pages of the Democratic Dashboard , none gets such a reaction as the Voter ...more
Inequality: Are we really 'all in this together'?
In his March 2015 Budget speech, Chancellor George Osborne emphasised that austerity measures over the 2010-15 Parliament had been fairly shared: inequality had fallen and ...more
Party manifestos fail to offer clear commitments on the redrawing of Parliamentary boundaries
Will the rules for the redistribution of Parliamentary constituencies be changed by the next government – as recommended by a House of Commons Committee? Or ...more
Will the electoral system continue to 'skew' towards Labour in 2015?
With less than one week to go until polling day, and irrespective of the fact that the polls are extremely close (they are), we should ...more
The coalition myth
Coalition politics remains relatively unfamiliar to British politicians, despite the experience of the past five years. Throughout the election campaign, the main party leaders have poured scorn ...more
Could the Conservatives and the Lib Dems find common ground on fiscal policy?
Is there enough common ground in the Conservative and Lib Dem fiscal plans to permit a renewal of their vows? In this post, Matthew Whittaker ...more
For Wales, do not see England (or Scotland)
Throughout 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 post, Jac Larner discusses ...more
