UK Political Links

• UK Election Results Sites
• UK General Election Forecast Sites
• Highly Recommended UK Election Sites
• UK Political Parties
• Opinion Polls
• Political Podcasts
• Political Discussions, Forecasts, and Blogs
• UK Election Forecasting Theory, Techniques and Discussions
• UK Government, Parliament, Official
• UK Voting and Constituency Information
• European
• Other Political Pages
• Political and Electoral News Feed

and finally..
• Political and Election Games

UK Political links are constantly being added and changed. To notify us of any interesting new political or election web sites or any dead links please email us on support@ukelect.co.uk. (Last update September 2025)

UK Election Results Sites - our pick of some of the best UK election results sites

• BBC General Election 2024 Results The BBC always provides detailed election data and analysis.
• Wikipedia General Election 2024 Results Wikipedia is always comprehensive and up-to-date.
• Democracy Club / Who Can I Vote For - All UK Elections Democracy Club / Who Can I Vote For provides extremely detailed candidate information and result data for all recent UK elections and by-elections, including the 2024 UK General Election. Includes candidate photos and statements - and even their record in office (where applicable).
• Election Polling A site already looking forward to the 2029 election, showing targets and marginals for the main parties for the next election. See, for example, Marginal Seats Battleground 2029, including
  • Labour Targets 2029,
  • Conservative Targets 2029,
  • Liberal Democrat Targets 2029,
  • Reform UK Targets 2029,
  • and Green Targets 2029.
• Watch the full results again on ITN (YouTube video) Watch the results again, as they were declared on ITN, with guest commentators Nichola Sturgeon, George Osborne and Ed Balls (ITN General Election 2024 programme: The Results, on YouTube)
• Watch the highlights of the results again on Channel 4 (YouTube video) Watch the results again, as they were declared on Channel 4, with guest commentators Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart (Channel 4 General Election 2024 programme: Britain Decides, on YouTube)
• Sky News: What does the UK's political map look like after the election? (YouTube video) From Sky News: What does the UK's political map look like after the 2024 election? (On YouTube)

UK General Election Forecast Sites - our pick of some of the best UK General Election Forecast sites

• Election Night Guide from PoliticalBetting.com Contributed by "pulpstar", aggregates seat by seat MRP predictions and relates them to likely declaration time
• Election Night Guide from PoliticalBetting.com - Sheet 1 From the above link, a spreadsheet showing forecasts for the likely early (before 2:30 a.m.) results in anticipated result declaration order, together with columns for the actual results.
• Election Night Guide from PoliticalBetting.com - Sheet 2 Following on from the above, the forecasts for the next batch of results, likely to be from 2:30 a.m. onwards, together with columns for the actual results.
• Aggregate of current election predictions From Peter Inglesby, a useful aggregate of current UK General Election 2024 predictions
• The Economist UK Election 2024 This site includes data and forecasts from other sites in its calculations.
• Electoral Calculus 2024 General Election Forecast Martin Baxter's popular site also includes options to create your own forecast.
• Elections Etc Stephen Fisher's site combines data from a large amount of different sites to create a unified forecast. This link is to the Sixth And Final Combined Forecast: Elections Etc 6th And Final Combined 2024 General Election Forecast
• Survation 2024 General Election Forecast Analysis of Survation's penultimate MRP Forecast - Check the site for anything more recent
• YouGov 2024 General Election YouGov Election General Election 2024 page, including their most recent MRP poll.
• FocalData / Prolific UK General Election MRP FocalData / Prolific UK General Election MRP.
• New Statesman - Britain Predicts From The New Statesman, Britain Predicts claims to be the definitive forecasting model.
• Financial Times - Predict the UK General Election Result From The Financial Times, predict the UK Gneral Election result
• Get Voting Tactical Voting site includes detailed MRP predictions The Get Voting Tactical Voting site (which gives tactical voting recommendations for voters sceptical about Brexit) includes MRP predictions for each constituency.
• UK Polling Report Forecast UK Polling Report includes its own forecast, as well as a discussion of election related issues.
• Bradshaw's General Election Prediction Model Bradshaw Advisory's General Election Prediction model.
• Principal Fish Forecast Election maps showing the Principal Fish site's current forecast.
• Forecasts UK - "Predicting UK Elections since 2008"Includes latest forecast from site that claims to have one of the best track-records of election forecasting.
• Nigel Marriott's Blog - Final Forecast General Election forecast from "An independent statistician using data to understand our world and to predict the future".
• UK-Elect Forecasts Main UK-Elect Forecasts Page

.. and as a postscript..
• How did the forecasters do in 2019? Chart showing accuracy of various 2019 predictions

Highly Recommended UK Election Sites - our pick of some of the best election-related sites

• UK Polling Report This site, originally created by Anthony Wells of YouGov, is a good source of up-to-date information on UK opinion polls but contains much, much more.
• Political Betting The site originally created by Mike Smithson is a fantastic source of up-to-date information and discussion, both reasoned and ferocious. In its own words: "Britain's most read political blog."
• Electoral Calculus Martin Baxter's enormously impressive site provides up to date forecasts. The integration with online resources, google maps and constituency data is outstanding.
• Elections etc. Stephen Fisher's site now includes occasional but in-depth articles. Stephen is a highly-respected academic who has done much research on many British election-related topics, including the way in which the support levels for the major British parties historically change, and are likely to change, in the run-up to General Elections.
• Peter Kellner - The Politics Counter Peter is an award award-winning political journalist, pollster (former Chairman and President of YouGov), political editor and and political analyst who has been an on-screen analyst on five BBC general election night results programmes.
• How did the UK General Election forecasts do in 2019? From Stephen Fisher's site electionsetc.com - an analysis of how accurate the various election forecasting sites were in 2019. (Generally fairly accurate, and UK-Elect did better than most).
• Democracy Club Comprehensive source of UK election data.
• Comment Is Freed Very popular politics and foreign affairs substack from Sam and Lawrence Freedman.
• The Week In Polls Mark Pack's substack offer in depth analyis of the latest polls and other election related topics.

UK Political Parties

• Conservative Party The UK's governing party 1979 to 1997, and since 2010 (with the Liberal Democrats to 2015).
• Labour Party The UK's governing party between 1997 and 2010.
• Liberal Democrats Junior party in the governing coalition (with the Conservative Party) from 2010 to 2015
• Brexit Party / Reform UK
• UK Independence Party
• Green Party of England and Wales
• Scottish Green Party
• Democratic Unionist Party
• Ulster Unionist Party
• Scottish National Party
• Plaid Cymru
• Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Sinn Fein
• Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• Liberal Party
• Scottish Socialist Party
• English Democrats Party
• British National Party
• Communist Party of Britain
• Socialist Party
• Socialist Party of Great Britain
• Socialist Workers Party
• Mebyon Kernow "The Party for Cornwall"
• Official Monster Raving Loony Party the party founded by Screaming Lord Sutch, regarded as more sensible than some of the above

Opinion Polls

• Wikipedia Latest Polling Summary
• BBC Opinion Poll Tracker
• Sky Opinion Poll Tracker
• ITV News - Latest Opinion Poll News
• Guardian Latest Polling Average
• DeltaPoll
• Ipsos
• Lord Ashcroft Polls
• Savanta
• Survation
• YouGov
• Political Betting Not a poll site as such, but usually has good and very up-to-date analysis of the latest polls, and a lively discussion on them.

Political Podcasts

• The Rest Is Politics Extremely popular UK poltical podcast from Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart. Downloads available from: The Rest Is Politics Plus, Youtube, Apple, Amazon, Spotify and many other sites.

Political Discussions, Forecasts, and Blogs

• Iain Dale Excellent blog from Politico's owner and former Conservative Candidate for Norfolk North. Keeps himself busy.
• Peter Kellner - The Politics Counter Peter Kellner's blog - always worth reading.
• Sam and Lawrence Freedman's substack Very popular politics and foreign affairs substack.
• Political Betting This excellent site usually includes a lively and informed debate on the electoral chances of the various parties
• Forecasts UK "Predicting UK Elections since 2008"
• Latest UK-Elect forecast (based on a mixture of polls, local results, and anticipated and actual trends)

UK Election Forecasting Theory, Techniques and Discussions

Note: for more, and more details, please see our UK Election Forecasting Theory, Techniques and Controversial Discussions page

• YouGov Election 2024 MRP Prediction Model Details MRP (Multi-level Regression and Post-Stratification) is a technique that assumes similar voters in different constituencies vote in a similar way. This link provides details about YouGov's current MRP model that uses polling data to identify common characteristics of voters in different constituencies.
  
• MRP: what it is and why it may, or may not, be right Mark Pack discusses MRP in detali: what it is and why it may, or may not, be right at the next general election.
  
• Breaking the Swingometer: Historical Precedents for Proportional Change Stephen Fisher of Elections Etc. considers whether traditional Uniform Swing based estimates are appropriate for the UK General Election of 2024
  
• Why Does Everyone Disagree on MRP? James Kanagasooriam of UK Polling Report asks "Why Does Everyone Disagree on MRP?"
  
• How Grumblers And Defectors Have Laid A Trap For Our Pollsters Peter Kellner explains his major doubts about the way in which pollsters use MRP (Multi-level Regression and Post-Stratification).
  
• Nigel Marriott's Blog "An independent statistician using data to understand our world and to predict the future", Nigel discusses polling and his own techniques for election forecasting in detail, and claims remarkable accuracy at some elections.
• Election Forecasting in the UK Academic paper by Clive Payne from 2001, discusses UK Election forecasting generally, and reviews the various statistical methods used by the BBC to forecast different types of election in the UK in the previous thirty years.
  
• Exit polling in a cold climate: the BBC-ITV experience in Britain in 2005 Academic paper by John Curtice and David Firth, provides an excellent discussion about election-poll related matters, drawing on the experiences of the BBC/ITN exit pollsters in 2005. This paper includes a mention of the Curtice/Firth method for calculating seat win probabilities.
  
• Polls and the Vote in Britain Academic paper by Christopher Wlezien, Will Jennings, Stephen Fisher, Robert Ford and Mark Pickup discussing the evolution of electoral sentiment over British electoral cycles. Contends that polls from early in the electoral cycle contain much information about the final outcome.
  
• Predictable and unpredictable changes in party support: A method for long-range daily election forecasting from opinion polls Academic paper by Stephen Fisher, outlines several methods for forecasting the next British general election on a daily basis from twenty months prior using opinion polls. Stephen's website is elections etc.
  

UK Government / Parliament / Official

• Prime Minister's Office The website of the Prime Minister's office, 10 Downing Street contains up to date goverment news, and information about British Prime Ministers.
• The Cabinet Manual A guide to laws, conventions and rules on the operation of government. Among other things, explains what should happen in the event of a hung parliament.
• Cabinet Office Site aims to provide fast and full access to information published by UK cabinet office.
• National Association of Local Councils
• UK Parliament
• House of Commons
• House of Lords
• Scottish Executive Official Scottish Government site
• Scottish Parliament Official site
• Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament
• Northern Ireland Assembly
• Mayor of London, the London Assembly Official site, includes information on:
• - The Mayor of London
• - The London Assembly

UK Voting and Constituency Information

• Electoral Commission Official information about voting, ID requirements etc.
• Who Can I Vote For? Find out more information about the election candidates in your area
• Where Do I Vote? Find your local polling station

European

• European Union Website Official European Union website, contains an enormous amount of information about the EU. Whatever you want to know about Europe, it's probably on that site!

Other Political Pages (concentrates mostly on sites with at least some free content)

• BBC UK Politics Few organisations can match the professionalism of the BBC
• ITV Politics News Political News from ITV
• Sky Politics Hub Sky Politics Hub
• Wikipedia 2024 UK General Election Comprehensive information on the UK July 4th 2024 General Election from Wikipedia
• Wikipedia List of UK By-elections Up-to-date list of UK By-elections from Wikipedia
• Wikipedia List of UK Changes of Party Affiliation Up-to-date list of UK Changes of Party Affiliation from Wikipedia
• Politics Home Top ranked site
• The Canary Popular left-wing site
• Guido Fawkes Popular right-wing site
• The London Economic Claims to be a digital newspaper with a metropolitan mindset, advocating kinder, more compassionate politics.
• Conservative Home Claims to be the leading independent conservative news and analysis site.
• Get Voting Tactical Voting site The Get Voting Tactical Voting site gives tactical voting recommendations for voters sceptical about Brexit. It includes information about each constituency.
• Electoral Geography 2.0: Mapped Politics Contains a huge amount of worldwide election and political links. A very comprehensive site.
• Electoral Reform Society
• Hansard Society Promotes parliamentary democracy through education
• Oultwood Local Government Site Lots of Local Government links for UK, Europe, USA and elsewhere
• Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) Independent research organisation promoting understanding of international issues
• National Centre for Social Research Contains a huge amount of information from the British Social Attitudes Survey
• Statista - Election and Voting Intention Data Election and Voting-Related Statistics, for UK, US, EU and others
• National Centre for Social Research - Parliamentary Constituency Lookup for England and Wales Map that can be used to look up key information on England and Wales constituencies
• UK Office for National Statistics - Local Statistics Find, compare and visualise statistics about places in the United Kingdom.
• UK Election Trends 1918-2019 - A Century of Elections From The House of Commons Library

Political and Election Games

• 270Sims - Where Gaming Gets Political Excellent political/election games, including President Infinity (2014-ongoing), Congress Infinity (2014-ongoing), Prime Minister Infinity - U.K. (2015-2019), and Prime Minister Infinity - Canada (2015-2019). Some older versions are available for free download