I am The Economist’s Political Data Journalist. I report on elections and polling around the world and oversee The Economist’s polling aggregators and predictive models.
Before joining The Economist, I was a Senior Analyst at Stack Data Strategy, a polling firm. I was a postgraduate researcher in the Quantitative Spatial Science group at the University of Bristol and studied Data Science at the University of Amsterdam and History and Politics at Jesus College, Oxford.
I am also a campaigner for electoral reform in the UK. I co-founded Make Votes Matter – the cross-party campaign for Proportional Representation (PR). I now serve on the organisation’s Board of Directors.
After the 2015 general election, I started a petition calling for the adoption of PR for elections to the House of Commons. Almost 300,000 people signed the petition and I joined in the surge of support for electoral reform. I sat on the council of the Electoral Reform Society from 2015 to 2019. In 2016, I was named as a ‘New Radical’ one-to-watch by Nesta and The Observer.
Owen Winter 