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Category Archives: 2010 General Election

Online population vote YES to AV

May 05, 2011

Today (Thursday 5 May) polling stations have opened across the UK to decide whether to change the electoral system from first-past-the-post (FPTP) to the alternative vote (AV) system, under which voters rank candidates in order of preference. The majority of... Continue reading...

Ed Miliband wins online majority as well as Labour leadership

September 28, 2010

With the Labour leadership decided last weekend it’s interesting to see how the popular opinion of the public through online Internet searches was reflected in the eventual triumph of Ed Miliband. Much was made in the media of the sibling... Continue reading...

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In Categories 2010 General Election | Government | Politics

Election traffic: Tories gain at Lib Dems’ expense, but it remains close online

May 04, 2010

The general election is just two days away, and it remains close. The chart below illustrates the weekly market share of visits to the three main political parties’ homepages, with the Conservative regaining the top spot. The Liberal Democrats have... Continue reading...

Bigot-gate and the role of social networks in the election

April 29, 2010

Gordon Brown’s unfortunate gaff yesterday – already inevitably christened ‘Bigot-gate’ – was the big political story yesterday, and probably the second major event of the election (after Nick Clegg’s success in the first leadership debate). Accordng to our daily search... Continue reading...

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In Categories 2010 General Election | Politics | Social networks

Tories back on top following second leadership debate

April 23, 2010

Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats were the big winners online following the first leadership debate last week, and based on our daily data their homepage has been picking up more UK Internet visits than either the Conservatives or Labour... Continue reading...

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In Categories 2010 General Election | Politics

Will Motorway Man swing to the Lib Dems?

April 21, 2010

Earlier in the week I highlighted the impact of the ‘Clegg Effect’ on traffic to the Liberal Democrats' website, and this has also been reflected in the most recent polls. However, the first past the post electoral system that we... Continue reading...

Leadership debate winners: Lib Dems, Sky News, ITV and Twitter

April 19, 2010

Despite the best efforts of an Icelandic volcano to ground all Northern European flights and take (obscure?) the limelight, last week’s leaders’ debate grabbed a lot of media attention. The consensus view is that Nick Clegg came out on top,... Continue reading...

Political blogs in the run up to the election

April 14, 2010

In yesterday’s post about the surge in online voter registration traffic, I mentioned the demographics of visitors to websites within our Politics category. That is a broad grouping that includes part homepages, blogs, government sites and overseas politics pages such... Continue reading...

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In Categories 2010 General Election | Blogs | Politics | Social networks

Online voter registration

April 13, 2010

British citizens flocked to the Internet to register to vote last week following the announcement that the General Election will take place on May 6th. UK Internet searches for the term ‘register to vote’ increased 9-fold between the week ending... Continue reading...

Robin Goad

Research Director, Hitwise UK.