Tag: Greens
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What effect did progressive cooperation have on the 2022 English local elections?
This research was originally posted as an LSE Politics and Policy blog post, here. Across England, hundreds of wards in the local elections had only one ‘progressive’ candidate (Labour, Liberal Democrat or Green). I have tried to estimate the effect that this had on their vote shares, using a technique called “Coarsened Exact Matching” (CEM).…
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How might the 2021 Senedd election have looked under the proposed new system?
My blog for Make Votes Matter on the proposed Senedd electoral system. Yesterday, Mark Drakeford and Adam Price published a “joint position statement” on Senedd reform. The agreement proposed the use of a closed list D’Hondt PR system to elect 96 Members of the Senedd (MSs). The system would have 16 constituencies, each electing 6…
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2021 Metro Mayor Elections: Labour narrowly gained from the Conservatives while losing to “Did Not Vote”
The eight Combined Authority (“Metro”) Mayor elections in May 2021 were some of Labour’s most successful of the cycle. Despite poor results elsewhere, Labour managed to pick up two mayoralties directly from the Conservatives (West of England and Cambridgeshire) and a third newly created position (West Yorkshire). The gains ended up being overshadowed, partly because…
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The Greens’ path to breakthrough runs through the Labour Party
Since the 2019 election, the Greens have been quietly creeping up in polls. Now sat at 5-7% in averages, the party is at its highest point since summer 2019, which was itself the Green’s best polling since before 2015. 5-7% might not seem like a lot, but in a FPTP election with dozens of seats…
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Proportional Representation: a Catalyst for Sustainable Policies?
My contribution to the Young Fabians Environment Network pamphlet ‘Ways to Save the World’ the full pamphlet can be found here. Until recently, interest in electoral reform was reserved for political anoraks. Around election time, some party activists grumbled about the unfairness of the system, but there were few serious attempts to change it. In…
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What if UK European Elections were held under the 1994 FPTP system?
The European Elections are the only nationwide UK elections held under a form of Proportional Representation. Admittedly, due to the D’Hondt counting system and small regions, the system isn’t perfectly proportional, but it is a vast improvement on the previous FPTP system, used until 1999. The last European Election to be held under First Past…
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Tactical voting on the basis of the 2014 European Elections
Disclaimer: I am a Labour Party member and will be voting for Labour in May’s European Elections. This blog is not intended to encourage tactical voting but to explore from an academic perspective whether various parties’ claims to be “the main Remain party” in the upcoming European Elections stand up to scrutiny. One of the biggest…
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Greens for a Better Europe – Twenty Years of UK Green Influence in the European Union
You can download Greens for Europe, the book which I contributed to, here: PDF eBook Physical copies are available in the shops listed here.
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Greens for a Better Europe – Book
I’m really excited to see the launch of Greens for a Better Europe – Twenty Years of UK Green Influence in the European Parliament, a book which I contributed a chapter to, co-authored by Klina Jordan. The book will be available from early March. Until then, here is the abstract of mine and Klina’s chapter.…
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Oxford Climate Review: Out of Proportion
How electoral systems can transform climate policy
Owen Winter 