Policy Network launch State of the Left Website
Following on from the Labour party resurgence The London office of the think tank Policy Network has recently launched State of the Left to offer free access to news and reports on centre-left parties and elections worldwide. It has a poll tracker charting progressive politics in nations worldwide and it is possible to sign up […]
Never mind the ballots
BFI Player’s fascinating collection of election films from the early 20th century to the 1970s They range from the funny Clangers voting cartoon from 1974 (ask your candidate in 2017 – are you offering free soup for all!) to a 1912 film of George Lansbury in the ‘suffragette election’ and in Bolton a suffragette addresses […]
Mapping Early American Elections Project
Just launched this major project funded by National Endowment for the Humanities which will provide free access to visualisations on a state level of how Americans voted for their legislators, 1787–1825. Follow the progress on their blog. It will be building on the electoral data already available from the New Nation votes project
Who Governs Europe?
A database from the University of Nottingham which offers insight into the political history of Europe and the government of 48 nations from (1848-2015). It is possible for users to get data on the process of political institutionalisation trends in party systems, types of political system, electoral volatility and the composition of individual governments in […]
French Presidential elections
Newspapers pay a key role in forming the opinion of the French electorate according to the recent Baromètre des médias, l’intérêt des Français pour l’actualité au plus bas depuis 2002 published last week by the newspaper La Croix and Kantar Public. According to this in terms of the 2017 presidential election 74% felt that the […]
Violence Against Women in Elections
A new framework of guidelines as been issued by IFES which will help officials monitor, assess and respond to gender violence during elections. Other useful international organisations examining women and political participations include the IPU they have up to date figures on women’s parliamentary representation worldwide. They also maintain a free bibliographic database where you […]
Presidential transition resources.
The Newseum front page archives is creating a web archive of worldwide newspaper front page images for election day so you can browse images of the headlines from hundreds of national and local American newspapers plus a wide selection of the international press. Scroll down to the date to see the Trump entries for November […]
Historic US election results
USA Presidential elections. Here are some historical data sources. Official vote counts for federal elections since 1920 from the official sources compiled by the Office of the Clerk. National Archives: Historical Election Results The Office of the Federal Register at the National Archives coordinates the functions of the Electoral College on behalf of the Archivist […]
US presidential elections (again)
To celebrate (!) the forthcoming elections here are some favourite historic digital collections. Museum of the Moving Image: the Living Room Candidate Has online commercials from 1952 and includes examples from 2016. In terms of the latter the blog provides a great daily commentary on events. Search the site by candidate and issue. See some […]
US Elections 2016
Political Bots: are they manipulating the USA Presidential elections? An interesting project on digital politics and algorithms which is considering how the use of automated scripts, commonly called bots, on social media manipulates and is a form of political propaganda. It is surveying industry insiders as well as building a database of political incidents involving bots. Some […]
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