CURRENT PREDICTION

UK General Election Prediction

Our current poll-of-polls predicts what would happen if there were a general election tomorrow.

Full details of our current prediction.
Party2024 Votes2024 SeatsPred VotesPred Seats
CON 24.4%121 26.9%207
LAB 34.7%412 27.6%311
LIB 12.6%72 12.0%68
Reform 14.7%5 19.5%12
Green 6.9%4 8.2%4
SNP 2.6%9 2.6%16
PlaidC 0.7%4 0.7%3

POLL ERROR

Classic Vote Shares, Raw and Adjusted

Polling errors in 2024

An analysis of polls for the 2024 election looks at possible causes of the polling error, and identifies a possible combination of two factors as potentially interesting.

POLL

Group of children on phones. Credit: Freepik
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Child Social Media Poll November 2024

A poll for the Daily Telegraph on children's access to social media and smartphones shows the public would like the social media age limit raised to 16, and for smartphones to be banned from schools.

MRP POLL

Con Leaders MRP Poll October 2024

A poll for the Jenrick campaign, asks voters how they would vote if Badenoch or Jenrick respectively were chosen as Conservative leader.

Data Tables

COMMENTARY

Probability of Parliamentary outcomes October 2024

Commentary October 2024

Prof Richard Rose looks at why the new Tory leader will be pulled in two directions.

ELECTION 2024

Seats Labour Held Before and After 2024 General Election

Election Trends and Insights

We look at the election results, trends and insights to see how secure Labour's victory is, what impact Reform really had, and whether politics and religion are now intertwined.

ELECTION 2024

Keir Starmer in Downing Street, 5 July 2024

General Election 2024

A summary of the results, and a first look at our predictions to see how they did.

COMMENTARY

Lacock village, Wiltshire. Photo: Oast House Archive

Commentary 26 June 2024

Prof Richard Rose says that former Tory voters are not returning home.

POLLING

House of Commons 2019

A Voter's Guide to MRP

Our helpful introduction to MRP polling, how it works, and whether Labour will really win nearly 500 seats.

GENERAL ELECTION 2024

Confused Man, author: Notas de Prensa

Tactical Voting

An in-depth look at tactical voting from our new MRP poll shows that it might cost Labour more seats than the Conservatives.

POLLING ANALYSIS

Low Cost MRP Regression

Electoral Calculus has pioneered low-cost MRP regression techniques for high-quality and insightful analysis of polling data.

More details

COMMENTARY

Probability of Parliamentary outcomes December 2024

Commentary December 2024

Prof Richard Rose looks why losing a majority needn't mean losing office.

COMMENTARY

Probability of Parliamentary outcomes November 2024

Commentary November 2024

Prof Richard Rose looks at the good news and the bad news for Labour.

COMMENTARY

Probability of Parliamentary outcomes September 2024

Commentary September 2024

Prof Richard Rose looks at why Labour's power rests on divided opposition.

COMMENTARY

Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform Party. Photo: Owain.davies

Commentary 12 July 2024

Prof Richard Rose says that the electoral system delivered one hit and one miss last week.

POLLING

Word Cloud from Conservative Defectors

Conservative Defectors in their own words

Our new poll, with Find Out Now, asks people who voted Conservative in 2019, but will not vote Conservative this time, to give their reasons in their own words.

PSEPHOLOGY

Voter Migration 2019-Feb 2024 (detail)

Voter Migration since 2019

See graphically how voters are moving between the parties, or not voting at all.

LIVE UPDATES

Recent national opinion polls

Current state of party support nationally as measured by the opinion pollsters. Data are shown in both graphical and tabular form for national polls taken over the last month or so.

POLITICAL MAPS

Norwich South: localities by EU Ref

Data Map

Our uniquely detailed Data Map of Britain shows twelve political and social measures including past votes and political attitudes.

All available at various geographic levels of detail including parliamentary seats, district wards, and individual neighbourhood localities.

HISTORICAL DATA

A unique electoral data archive from 1955

Data includes historical data flat files of UK elections from 1955 to date plus our track record of predictions and much more.

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