Elections
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The most confused election
Review of G. H. Bennett, The 1922 General Election Reconsidered: High Politics and the Birth of the Modern British Election (University of London Press, 2025)
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A Liberal Agent in the 1960s
Experiences as a Liberal election agent at elections and by-elections
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Boundaries, Science and the redrawing of England’s Electoral Map in 1832
The 1832 Boundary Act and the work of the 1831–32 Boundary Commission
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Flattered to Deceive?
The performance of the Liberal Democrats in the May 2026 local and devolved elections
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By-elections in the Great War
Review of John Leston, Battles at the Ballot: The Politicians, Idealists & Cranks of Britain’s First World War By-Elections (Haythorp Books, 2025)
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The geography of Liberal survival
The geographical persistence of the Liberal vote.
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Liberalism in Power: Watching the Titanic
An examination of the effects of participation in government on twelve constituency campaigns during the 2015 general election.
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Breakthrough: the Liberal Democrat performance in the 2024 election
The outcome of the general election on 4 July 2024 was extraordinary. Compared to the 2019 election, the Liberal Democrats’ share of the vote rose by less than 1 per cent, to 12.2 per cent, but the number of MPs jumped from 11 (plus 4 by-election gains) to 72, the highest number since 1923. Highly…