Current Prediction: Conservative short 19 of majority

Party	2017 Votes	2017 Seats	Pred Votes	Pred Seats
CON	43.5%	318	37.0%	307
LAB	41.0%	262	34.9%	256
LIB	7.6%	12	9.6%	19
UKIP	1.9%	0	6.1%	0
Green	1.7%	1	4.3%	1
SNP	3.1%	35	3.4%	46
PlaidC	0.5%	4	0.5%	3
Minor	0.7%	0	4.2%	0
N.Ire		18		18

Prediction based on opinion polls from 04 Mar 2019 to 30 Mar 2019, sampling 9,840 people.

Probability of possible outcomes

Conservative majority	40%
Labour majority	26%
Lab choice of Lib/Nat	8%
Con choice of Lib/Nat	7%
Con/Nat coalition	6%
Lab/Nat coalition	5%
No overall control	3%
Nat choice of Con/Lab	3%
Lab/Lib coalition	1%
Con/Lib coalition	1%

The future is never certain. But using our advanced modelling techniques, we can estimate the probability of the various possible outcomes at the next general election. ('Nat' means SNP+PlaidC)

Political Analysis

Three-D Politics and the Seven Tribes

A major new piece of analysis by Electoral Calculus and pollster ComRes creates a three-dimensional landscape of British politics and identifies the seven political tribes which occupy it.

Electoral Calculus has moved beyond a simplistic one-dimensional view of politics, and even gone further than our own pioneering two-dimensional view, to create a three key dimensions of political attitudes:

• Economic: running from left-wing (more taxes and spending) to right-wing (freer markets and tax cuts)
• National: from globalist co-operation to nationalist sovereignty
• Social: from socially liberal to socially conservative

Using major polling work by the British Election Study, we can give a political three-D position for each poll respondent identifying their political position on each of the three dimensions.

Groups of like-minded individuals can be spotted to identify seven political tribes of people with similar political attitudes, and gain insight about their demographics and voting behaviour.

The Seven Tribes have also been reported in today's Daily Telegraph. You can see the full details of the Electoral Calculus analysis here on our website.

You can also find out your own 3D political position, and that of your neighbourhood, by taking our short 3D survey.

Posted 20 April 2019

Regression-based prediction

Regression-based ComRes/ElCalc poll shows increased Labour lead

Working with leading pollster ComRes, Electoral Calculus has applied modern regression-based techniques to show an increased Labour lead over the Conservatives.

Regression techniques, also known as MRP, are growing in popularity in the market research industry as a way to make polling more accurate again. Classic polling techniques have had problems with accuracy in recent years as representative sampling becomes harder.

Working jointly with ComRes, we have applied the regression techniques to recent polls. Those polls showed Labour and the Conservatives about equally popular, when they were analysed with conventional polling techniques. But under the new regression techniques, they show a Labour lead of 4pc over the Conservatives.

	General Election 2017		Current Voting Intention
Party	Vote Share	Seats	Vote Share	Seats	Change
CON	43.5%	318	32.6%	277	−41
LAB	41.0%	262	34.7%	290	28
LIB	7.6%	12	8.6%	15	3
UKIP	1.9%	0	5.9%	0	0
Green	1.7%	1	3.2%	0	-1
TIG	0.0%	0	8.6%	0	0
SNP	3.1%	35	3.7%	47	12
PC	0.5%	4	0.7%	3	-1

An additional feature of regression techniques is that they give a seat-by-seat breakdown which each seat is individually predicted, rather than relying on uniform national swing assumptions.

This regression prediction by ComRes and Electoral Calculus was featured in the Daily Telegraph, "Tory Leavers most in danger of losing seats" on 20 April 2019.

Details of the regression method, and its successful testing with earlier pre-election polls can be found here.

Posted 20 April 2019

UK's original General Election predictor

Electoral Calculus predicts the next British General Election result using scientific analysis of opinion polls and electoral geography.

Founder Martin Baxter has been making election predictions for twenty years, and the site gives comprehensive information, maps and drilldowns of the predictions.

These pages last updated on Tue 23 Apr 2019 12:22.

Postcode lookup

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Three-D Politics

Major new analysis of British politics in three dimensions, which identifies seven tribes spread over the political landscape.

Also Plot my 3D position.

Posted 23 April 2019

Final New Boundaries

Now Boundaries 2018 is updated with the final proposals from the Boundary Commissions published on 10 September 2018.

Posted 12 September 2018

Features available

This website explains where these predictions come from, and lets you make your own predictions. There are also detailed predictions of every seat, including a list of target vulnerable seats, and a complete nationwide list of seat predictions.

Also freely available are data files containing the seat-by-seat results of all general elections since 1983.