The UK General Election on 4th July 2024 saw one of the lowest turnouts in British democratic history, with less than 60% of registered voters turning up at polling stations to vote.
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The polling industry should think again about constituency by constituency election projections
Earlier this month, Unlock Democracy’s survey which aimed to elucidate the complex relationship between voting behaviour and manifestos revealed arguably worrying findings regarding the influence of party manifestos on how the electorate cast their vote.
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If British citizens living overseas are to have the right to vote, we must make sure that their votes are counted. We must demand reforms to the way overseas voters partake in elections.
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If this week’s headlines are to be believed, the far right in France are heading for an election victory in the French General Election. They’re doing this despite winning barely a third of the vote and because of the First Past The Post voting system, that could be enough to win them power.
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In this General Election, we’ve seen an explosion in websites and polling companies that claim to project results in individual Parliamentary Constituencies.
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On Wednesday evening we hosted a discussion "Countdown to polling day: With Sir John Curtice". Sir John was joined by Hardeep Matharu, editor of Byline Times, and Maria Iacovou, Professor of Quantitative Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Our chair was Sangita Myska, journalist and TV presenter.
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New findings by the National Centre for Social Research show that public trust in government and politicians is dropping further.
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Unlock Democracy believes it’s time the UK had an independent Debates Commission to organise leaders’ debates at General Elections.
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Respect for our system of government culture has never been so low, nor politicians so distrusted, according to the latest report from the National Centre for Social Research. Yet the major parties have no plans for political reform, nor seem to understand the threat to cohesion - and to democracy itself.
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