Posts Tagged ‘ 2010 General Election ’

Online population vote YES to AV

Tweet Today (Thursday 5 May) polling stations have opened across the UK to decide whether to change the electoral system from first-past-the-post (FPTP) to the alternative vote (AV) system, under which voters rank candidates in order of preference. The majority of online searches relating to AV in the last four weeks have been very generic, [...][ READ MORE ]

Ed Miliband wins online majority as well as Labour leadership

Tweet With the Labour leadership decided last weekend it’s interesting to see how the popular opinion of the public through online Internet searches was reflected in the eventual triumph of Ed Miliband. Much was made in the media of the sibling rivalry between Ed and his brother David, but searches over the last four weeks [...][ READ MORE ]

Election traffic: Tories gain at Lib Dems’ expense, but it remains close online

Tweet The general election is just two days away, and it remains close. The chart below illustrates the weekly market share of visits to the three main political parties’ homepages, with the Conservative regaining the top spot. The Liberal Democrats have fallen into third place, but it remains extremely close – especially when you consider [...][ READ MORE ]

Bigot-gate and the role of social networks in the election

Tweet Gordon Brown’s unfortunate gaff yesterday – already inevitably christened ‘Bigot-gate’ – was the big political story yesterday, and probably the second major event of the election (after Nick Clegg’s success in the first leadership debate). Accordng to our daily search data we tracked 400 distinct search terms containing the word ‘bigot’ yesterday; the day [...][ READ MORE ]

Tories back on top following second leadership debate

Tweet Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats were the big winners online following the first leadership debate last week, and based on our daily data their homepage has been picking up more UK Internet visits than either the Conservatives or Labour over the last 7 days. However, as the chart below illustrates, following last night’s [...][ READ MORE ]

Will Motorway Man swing to the Lib Dems?

Tweet Earlier in the week I highlighted the impact of the ‘Clegg Effect’ on traffic to the Liberal Democrats’ website, and this has also been reflected in the most recent polls. However, the first past the post electoral system that we have in the UK means that where the parties pick up votes is as [...][ READ MORE ]

Leadership debate winners: Lib Dems, Sky News, ITV and Twitter

Tweet Despite the best efforts of an Icelandic volcano to ground all Northern European flights and take (obscure?) the limelight, last week’s leaders’ debate grabbed a lot of media attention. The consensus view is that Nick Clegg came out on top, and UK searches for the Liberal Democrat leader increased 7-fold last week, clearly overtaking [...][ READ MORE ]

Political blogs in the run up to the election

Tweet In yesterday’s post about the surge in online voter registration traffic, I mentioned the demographics of visitors to websites within our Politics category. That is a broad grouping that includes part homepages, blogs, government sites and overseas politics pages such as the Huffington Post. In order to understand popularity of British political sites I’ve [...][ READ MORE ]

Online voter registration

Tweet British citizens flocked to the Internet to register to vote last week following the announcement that the General Election will take place on May 6th. UK Internet searches for the term ‘register to vote’ increased 9-fold between the week ending April 3rd and the week ending April 10th. Between the week ending April 3rd [...][ READ MORE ]