The British Election Study

🚨New Research 🚨 Ahead of the release of Wave 30 of the BES Internet Panel, the team has examined Labour's decline since the 2024 GE. Labour's support has splintered into mostly indecision or left-liberal parties, but they've also lost their few right-wing voters. 🧵⬇️ tinyurl.com/3m62exph

📢 New Data 📢 We are pleased to announce the release of Wave 31 of the British Election Study Internet Panel. You can find out more information, including where to download the data, here: www.britishelectionstudy.com/uncategorize...

📣Blog #2 📣 Even in pro-Brexit and marginal seats, Labour had lost far more support to the Greens and Lib Dems than to Reform UK by May 2026. Read more from @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social, Ed Fieldhouse, and Stuart Perrett here, which showcases new BESIP (W31) data: tinyurl.com/ms3c8z8y

🚨 New Blog 10 years on from the referendum, and Brexit is still structuring British politics. In this new blog, BES director Ed Fieldhouse and research fellow @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social examine how the Brexit alignment looks in 2026. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

@britishelectionstudy.com Director Prof Ed Fieldhouse here explaining the Brexit realignment with insights from our new forthcoming book … please check it out! blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

🚨Data Update 🚨 We have released an updated version of our panel data. This version includes a correction to our p_ethnicity variables, which affected 7.8% of our respondents. There is also a very small correction to our geographic variables. More ⬇️ www.britishelectionstudy.com/uncategorize...

🚨Data Update 🚨 We are pleased to release an updated version of the 2024 BES Face-to-Face Post-Election Survey dataset (v1.0.1) that includes improved versions of two important survey weights (wt_demog and wt_vote) based on new estimates of the VEP. www.britishelectionstudy.com/2024-general...

Featuring @britishelectionstudy.com data. And analysis by @martamiori.bsky.social, @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social and data story supported by me.

🚨DATA RELEASE 🚨 The BES team are pleased to announce the release of Wave 30 of the British Election Study Internet Panel. Please follow the link below, and we look forward to seeing your research! www.britishelectionstudy.com/bes-resource...

Interested in Labour's lost voters since the 2024 UK GE? Want to get a sneak peak at some of the results from wave 30 of the BESIP before it is released? Then we have a new blog for you! 👇👇

The Brexit realignment is the essential starting point for understanding where Labour's vote is splintering. The largest group is still 'undecided': good news-ish for Labour, but potential for others too. This shows how large Labour's first year losses are relative to recent comparable governments:

🚨NEW DATA 🚨 The BES team are pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Random Probability Survey Release v1.0.0 You can download the data here: www.britishelectionstudy.com/data-object/... You can find our release note here: www.britishelectionstudy.com/uncategorize...

New publication by the @britishelectionstudy.com team! @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social has summarised the main findings in this thread, but you can also find the paper here: academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...

This year's Scottish Election Study Annual Lecture, delivered by our outstanding colleague and @britishelectionstudy.com Co-Director @profjanegreen.bsky.social, will take place a week on Monday in Edinburgh! 👩🏼‍🏫 Details and sign up below 🔽 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-e...

If you're interested in what the local elections mean for the Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats, or the Greens, then @profjanegreen.bsky.social has a new explainer for you! You can read more about it here: tinyurl.com/2s48bbf4 Or you can watch here: youtu.be/T9pKpbECtKk?...

Happy to say the third in this series is now on YouTube and @itvx.com. More soon….

Are you interested in the local elections? Do you want to know more about what they mean for Reform UK? If so, you should watch these explainers by @profjanegreen.bsky.social Tips for interpreting the locals: tinyurl.com/28jwpbub What it means for Reform: tinyurl.com/2sxrzeva

We made some pithy explainers for you! Please watch these short films: Four tips for interpreting these local elections: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DSb... Reform Revolution? Four hurdles Reform will still need to overcome: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6ZG...

Reform will make big gains on 1 May. But what will that *MEAN*? Will it mean they're building momentum, or will these locals last fought in 2021 be mainly catching up with last year's GE? Will locals and a potential by-election win mean Reform are on track for a big Westminster breakthrough?

With massive thanks to @martamiori.bsky.social, Rosalie Falla, Sadia Islam. A joy to work with. And all at @itvnews.bsky.social @itvnewspolitics.bsky.social for their support. Data and analysis from @britishelectionstudy.com @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @nprcoxford.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social

The British Election Study team are happy to announce the release of our results file, which compiles 2024 election results, census data, candidate information, and other contextual data by constituency in Britain. You can download the results file here: www.britishelectionstudy.com/data-object/...

🚨New Data 🚨 The British Election Study team are happy to announce the release of the 2024 Expert Survey. We have also released the Trend File, which includes data from the 2014-2024 expert surveys. Thank you to those who completed the survey! Find the data here: tinyurl.com/BES-Expert-2...

📣 Data update 📣 We have updated our Teaching Dataset to include our 2024 waves (26-29) These datasets (wide/long) have a condensed number of variables, which are designed for use by teaching professionals. Available here: www.britishelectionstudy.com/data-objects...

📢Data Update 📢 We have released an updated version of the British Election Study Internet Panel, alongside waves 20, 27, and 29 with some minor fixes. This includes rectifying a small labelling issue with our selfPriorities variables. Find data here: britishelectionstudy.com/data/

Reflections from our team on 60th Year Anniversary of the BES youtu.be/aRzpVQjrfVk?... @profjanegreen.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social @caprosser.bsky.social @jack-bailey.co.uk @jonmellon.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social

🚨New Research🚨 @profjanegreen.bsky.social and @mlsohnius.bsky.social have explored disillusionment among young voters, which was featured on @BBCr4today. You can read the blog here: disq.us/t/4qqlcl2 Or you can listen to Prof Green here (from 02:40:55): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Happy #EPOP2024 everyone. We are pleased to announce the release of waves 27, 28, and 29 of the BES Internet Panel. You can find the panel, and the standalone files, on our website: www.britishelectionstudy.com/data-object/...

📢New blog In our first post-election analysis, @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social , @profjanegreen.bsky.social, and Ed Fieldhouse explore how tactical voting helped the Liberal Democrats when they were the anti-Conservative option Watch our summary: youtu.be/LSAdGa3bBnQ?... Read here: shorturl.at/iet8O

🚨 New Datasets 🚨 We have published two new datasets: 1. A condensed version of the BES internet panel, designed for use by teaching professionals. 2. A supplementary dataset, which can link Wave 22 with the Scottish/Welsh Election Studies. 👇👇 www.britishelectionstudy.com/data-objects... polisky 🌐