We've introduced an Irish Presidential Election projection! Enter your first preferences and play with their transfer freindliness to project a winner. irishelections.ie/presidential/

We've added a new Margin of Error preset to our Northern Ireland projection! It creates random votes share near the Nowcast so you can see what could happen with a normal polling miss. Just click it again for a different scenario. devolvedelections.co.uk/northern-ire...

We tested how a Single NI Unionist Party *could* do at the next election. DUP + UUP + TUV: 38 A Unified Party: 38 devolvedelections.co.uk/blog/single-...

A projection based on the Ireland Thinks poll for @independent.ie: 🟩 Fianna Fáil — 44 Seats ☘️ Sinn Féin — 40 ⭐ Fine Gael — 38 🟪 Social Democrats — 19 💬 Independent — 11 🌹 Labour — 10 🟢 Independent Ireland — 7 🌳 Aontú — 2 ✊ PBP-S — 2 ⚪ Other — 1 irishelections.ie/general/

The latest @scotvoting.bsky.social / @yougov.co.uk poll for the next Holyrood election: 🎗️ SNP — 58 🌹 Lab — 24 🌳 Con — 8 🌱 GP — 10 🐤 LD — 10 ➡️ Ref — 19 🔵 Alba — 0 ⚪ Other — 0 devolvedelections.co.uk/scotland/

Our first Nowcast: 🟩 Fianna Fáil — 44 Seats ☘️ Sinn Féin — 43 ⭐ Fine Gael — 38 🟪 Social Democrats — 19 🌹 Labour — 11 💬 Independent — 8 🟢 Independent Ireland — 6 🌳 Aontú — 3 ✊ PBP-S — 2 From @irishelection.bsky.social

Following the announcement of 'Your Party' yesterday we've started adding them to our projection. It's not live yet but here are some early findings. Using ratios from some hypotheticals polls - Your Party would enter the Senedd (8 seats) and Holyrood (2) next year.

💥 The Government has just published its proposals for electoral reforms 💬 Statement from our Chair, @alexsobel.co.uk: "Today’s proposals are a welcome step towards cleaner, fairer and more trusted elections, but one critical issue remains unresolved: the voting system itself."

We're concerned that the position of 16 year olds in NI Assembly elections in all this is unclear. It's a big enough change that they should say it clearly, and a big enough omission to also say it clearly.

Also, whoever wrote this obviously never tried to use one to get into a pub in Enniskillen.

“The point about PR isn't that it favours one party or another. In the unlikely event that most people choose a populist party we'd get a populist government. What PR will not do - and FPTP very much would - is to hand 100% government control to a party that most people voted against” Andy Beck MVM

Our projection of the latest Beaufort Research's Senedd poll for @nation.cymru : Lab — 30 Seats Ref — 29 PC — 22 Con — 10 LD — 2 GP — 3 devolvedelections.co.uk/wales/

If this happened in any other part of the UK or the island of Ireland, people would rightfully go to prison for it.

The formation of the NI Executive is one of NI's oddest quirks. This obeys all the rules - and there a lot of them - to make it easy to understand and accurate.

1 year ago today Labour swept to power. They won a huge majority of seats with an unremarkable share I've put last year's results into our projection to see how Labour *could* have done if GE24 results had played out at the devolved tier in Scotland & Wales vs how they're doing now It's not pretty

Who wants to see how 81 different census variables correlate with this May's local election results? Of course you do: www.datawrapper.de/_/avuui/?v=4

Officially a Doctor of Politics for my work looking at how devolved elections have impacted party systems in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

New Ipsos Poll for ‪@stv.news‬ SNP — 57 Seats Lab — 25 GP — 16 Ref — 16 Con — 8 LD — 7 Alba — 0 Conservatives in 5th with just 1 constituency seat.

🚨 Our Coalition Builder tool is now live for Scottish and Welsh projections! 🗳️ Ever wondered what party alliances could form after an election? Now you can experiment with different outcomes, test majorities, and see how the numbers stack up — all with a few clicks. ✨

My husband knows the politics 🗳️ I write the code 💻 Together we built a site to make devolved elections easier to understand. ✨ Here's what I learned building civic tech without being an expert: 🔗 devolvedelections.co.uk/blog/civic-t... 💡 #elections #devolution #politics #uk

Our new London Assembly projection tool is live! Play with the numbers, explore the seats, and see who’s on track to run the show in 2028 (yes, we're a bit early). Go on, have a poke around 👉 devolvedelections.co.uk/london/

New visual for Scotland! 📊 — you can now see the order of Regional seats in our Scottish projections. Our latest Nowcast has the Tories down to just 1 seat in Glasgow. www.devolvedelections.co.uk/scotland/

You can now see D'Hondt seat allocation for every Senedd constituency! The last two seats in Caerdydd Penarth are on a Knife edge between Plaid Cymru, Tories and Greens according to our Nowcast. devolvedelections.co.uk/wales/

We've added a new Tactical Voting button - this adjusts up the vote shares of previously large parties in Scottish constituencies in line with historic trends. It shifts the SNP down 2 seats in our Nowcast to 59. Lab — 19 Ref — 17 Con — 16 GP — 10 LD — 8 devolvedelections.co.uk/scotland/

Using the great @devolvedelections.bsky.social model the #SubPollSeries for Week 23 has a bit more colour and info. I've translated the WM voting intention to a Scottish voting intention for constituency and list and come on with view of the Scottish Parliament. Still a work in progress!

Inverting the Projection on the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse By-Election Result devolvedelections.co.uk/blog/inverti... @devolvedelections.bsky.social

*If* the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election were extrapolated nationally: SNP — 49 Seats Ref — 26 Lab — 23 Con — 14 GP — 10 LD — 7 @devolvedelections.bsky.social devolvedelections.co.uk/scotland/

New analysis: Prospects for Reform at the next devolved elections. www.devolvedelections.co.uk/blog/prospects-for-reform/

New educational tool from the SES @scotvoting.bsky.social 's @eoghanly.bsky.social Play around w the seat projector with your poll results of choice Ideal for Modern Studies students taking a break from studying 🤓

Play around with the only projection site which includes Scotland, Wales & even Northern Ireland!

For the first time all devolved national elections in the UK will use different electoral systems Cool site below by @eoghanly.bsky.social allows you to see how they all work turning votes into seats 👇

Our first DevolvedElections Nowcast for Senedd ‘26: Lab — 27 Con — 12 PC — 28 LD — 3 Ref — 26 From devolvedelections.co.uk/wales/

Our first DevolvedElections Nowcast for Senedd ‘26: Lab — 27 Seats Con — 12 PC — 28 LD — 3 Ref — 26 From @devolvedelections.bsky.social

Over last year I've been building a Senedd Election Simulator tool. It gives a useful (I hope!) visual explainer of how the new election system turns votes into seats. 🧵 on some of what it can do below: jaclarner.github.io/senedd_ethol...

This is a really helpful new tool for forecasting votes > seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly

Our nowcast projection for the NI Assembly ‘27: SF — 28 Seats DUP — 21 Seats AP — 16 Seats UUP — 9 Seats SDLP — 9 Seats TUV — 7 Seats From @devolvedelections.bsky.social & devolvedelections.co.uk/northern-ireland/

A Nowcast for Scottish Parliament ‘26: SNP — 61 Seats Lab — 19 Seats Con — 16 Seats GP — 10 Seats LD — 11 Seats Ref — 12 Seats Alba — 0 Seats From @devolvedelections.bsky.social Make you own on devolvedelections.co.uk

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

💻 NEW DATA The Scottish political landscape has evolved greatly in recent months and a lot has been said about support for @reformukscotland.bsky.social with little available analysis. @frasmcm.bsky.social and @ailsahenderson.bsky.social took a look at the party's support on our blog t.ly/PjCxX

⏰ CALL FOR PAPERS Scottish politics conference co-organised by the SES, @ccc-research.bsky.social and hosted at @edinburghpir.bsky.social 12-13 May 2025 We look forward to welcoming researchers working on anything and everything related to Scottish politics a year out from the 2026 election 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗳️

This is exactly what it looks like (via @patriottakes.bsky.social)

PhD completed! Thanks to @elofabre.bsky.social and @jamiepow.bsky.social and all at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social .