The UK is gearing up for a general election on 12 December, when voters will decide who they want to run the country. While general elections are meant to take place every five years, this will be the third UK election within four years. What are people voting for? Voters from...
This visualisation explores the UK's 2019 general election results. Specifically, it looks at whether there is a relationship between turnout and swing by party and region. I processed the data from the UK's House of Commons in R and created the individual graphs using the ggp...
On 13 December 2019, the Conservative Party won a majority of 80 seats in the UK’s first December general election since 1923. Much of the election debate focussed on the respective parties’ plans for handling Brexit, however some key commitments of the Conservative Party manifesto could have...
The 2019 UK general election had huge implications for Brexit, and in turn for Northern Ireland. The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was championing a renegotiated UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement that had been strongly opposed by all political parties in Northern Ireland, the part of the UK ...
6, 2019. Britain's general election campaign officially started after Prime Minister Boris Johnson had an audience with Queen Elizabeth II to formally ask her permission to dissolve parliament. (Xinhua/Han Yan)"Clearly for the Conservatives, this election will all be about Brexit, and Boris ...
19, 2019. Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn faced a national audience on Tuesday night in the first ever televised head-to-head clash between the country's two top political leaders just weeks before the Dec. 12 general election. (Jonathan Hordle/ITV/Handout via Xinhua)...
Tara Beard-Knowland, former lead of Ipsos MORI’s Social Intelligence Analytics practice, explores the thoughts of the public as increasingly expressed in this election via social media and discusses some of the implications of this growing activity. Brexit was the leading focus of election-related...
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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during an event launching the Conservative Party's general election campaign in Birmingham, Britain, Nov 6, 2019. [Photo/Agencies] LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson told British voters Wednesday that they have to back his Conservatives if they want...
Photo taken on Dec. 13, 2019 shows the Bank of England in London, Britain. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party gained a landslide win on Friday in Britain's general election, but economists said his victory is not enough to boost the country's economy in the near term...