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December 2024

The double incumbency effect
Welcome to the 141st edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which takes a look at a 1980s psephological fad that may be due a comeback in this Parliament…
How useful is Uniform National Swing (UNS)?
Welcome to the 140th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), the penultimate of the year and this time rather than forcing myself to choose between writing…
The return of the don't knows?
Welcome to the 139th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which looks at the possible revival of a regular polling feature of the last Parliament, the…
Should Labour move to the right on immigration?
Welcome to the 138th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which takes a look at a polling-adjacent issue.
Why it's good that polls get reported so much
Welcome to the 137th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which is a follow-up to last time’s piece on why banning polls would be a bad idea. This time…

November 2024

Why banning polls would be a bad idea
Welcome to the 136th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which takes a look at the debate on banning polls kicked off by a new book about the 2024…
More graphs, more American analysis
Welcome to the 135th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which travels across the Atlantic again for another look at what the data can tell us about…
Live at 8pm tonight: how did the US polls do?
UPDATE: This has now been broadcast and you can watch it back here -
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How did the polls do in the US elections?
Welcome to the 134th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which should be the most caveat-laden edition so far as I venture outside my main area of…
Budget polling: what the early evidence says
Welcome to the 133rd edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which takes a look at what early post-Budget polling says, carefully avoiding talking about…
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