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New UK Government
The overall result of a new Labour Government from the UK General Election 2024 may not have been a huge surprise to many, but the breakdown of results and the historic nature of the election result broke new records. Professor Jane Green, Co-Director of the…
British Election Study Data in Use
The British Election Study team is continuing to share the most recent data from the BES ahead of next week’s general election, through publication on the BES website, and short films, which help to explain what’s happening in the lead up to the vote. Election…
Data Release: 2024 Election Provisional Panel Dataset
The British Election Study team is pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Election Provisional Panel Dataset, which includes Wave 26 of the Internet Panel survey. This is a beta version of the BES panel which is abridged and updated to May 2026 (W26)….
Data Release: British Election Study Wave 25 Internet Panel: 5-23 May 2023
The British Election Study team is pleased to announce the release of wave 25 of the Internet Panel survey. 30,407 respondents took wave 25 of the British Election Study internet panel. 19,549 of these also took wave 23 with a retention rate of 63%. 11,391…
Data Release: British Election Study Wave 24 Internet Panel: 1 -14 December...
The British Election Study (BES) is pleased to announce the release of wave 24 of the Internet Panel survey. This was a supplemental wave with a reduced sample size that mainly includes only core BESIP questions (users should be aware that wave 25 will have…
New BES Post-Doctoral Positions
The British Election Study is recruiting two new post-doctoral positions: a Research Associate and a Research Fellow. Both contracts run from 1 October 2023 (or as near as possible thereafter) until 31 January 2026. Closing date for applications is midnight on 28 June 2023. Both…
British Election Study Team Awarded First Ever Pippa Norris Prize
Professors Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Geoffrey Evans and Drs Jonathan Mellon and Chris Prosser, supported by Dr Jack Bailey, have been awarded the new Pippa Norris Prize from the Political Studies Association. The prize recognises a research team that has made an outstanding contribution to…
An asymmetric age divide? The young feel much better represented by Labour,...
Zack Grant, Jane Green, Geoffrey Evans University of Oxford The growing age gap in voting behaviour is one of the most important and striking trends in recent British elections. The old are increasingly Conservative; the young are increasingly Labour. Using newly released British Election…
A BES commemoration to Harold Clarke
The BES team stands in the footsteps of Harold Clarke and his colleagues Marianne Stewart, Paul Whiteley and David Sanders, who together ran the BES for over a decade. We mourn the passing of Harold Clarke and send our very best wishes to his family…
Data Release: Wave 21 of the British Election Study Internet Panel, 2014-2023
The British Election Study is pleased to announce the release of wave 21 of our Internet Panel survey. Wave 21 constitutes the second wave of the panel to occur after the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis. 30,381 respondents took wave 21 of the British Election…