User-defined Regional Poll

This page lets you make a prediction for the whole country that not only uses the national support figures, but also allows for regional variation.

Make Your Prediction

Firstly, enter the national support figures in the first line of the table below to set the overall national swing. Our current national support figures are shown, but you can override them. As you enter national support figures, the national trend values to the right will update.

Then, area-by-area, please enter the support for each party in each area. (Area definitions) This allows different areas to have different swings from the national trend. For reference, the national trend figures on the right give a helpful indication of the expected regional support if there were no differences in swing between areas. As a starting point, you can use the uniform national trend figures (press "Use Trend Values").

Current Regional Support   National trend
Area Con %Lab %Lib %Reform %Green %Nat %   Con %Lab %Lib %Reform %Green %Nat %
National support
Scotland 000000
North East 00000
North West 00000
Yorks/Humber 00000
Wales 000000
West Midlands 00000
East Midlands 00000
Anglia 00000
South West 00000
London 00000
South East 00000
National average 00000 00000

What to display
Area/seat to display
Seat Boundaries to use
 


Notes and Guidance

You should try to ensure that the average of the regional support figures is approximately equal to the national support. The algorithm will correct for any difference, but a large gap may cause accuracy problems.

You can display just the seats predicted to change hands ("All GB changed seats"), or see a majority-sorted list of all GB seats ("All GB seats majority-sorted"), or study any area in detail. If a area is selected, the 'Individual seat' menu list allows you to see all the area's seats majority-sorted, or to examine a particular single constituency.

Opportunities in which this page can be used:

  1. You may have your own intuition or data implying differences in swing between areas. In this case, enter the national support figures from recent polling, and the "National Trend" entries will update. Then apply your swing differences to those trends to infer regional support levels. For instance, if you think that the Conservatives will have 5% less gain in the North East than nationally, just subtract 5% from the "National Trend" figure for Con in "North East" to get their regional support there.
  2. Incorporating a Scotland or Wales poll with national polls. Just press the "Use Trend Values" button to set the support in the English areas, then enter the results of the Scottish and/or Welsh poll as the region support levels there. Then press "Predict Election".
  3. Using a large-scale poll which provides regional breakdown. The results of such a poll can be entered directly into the cells above.

Predictions can be made on the basis of the current 2023 constituency boundaries (650 seats), or any historic election since 1955.


Areas

The areas shown are made up of official UK areas (large map) in the following way.

AreaCounties (historic)
ScotlandAll Scotland
North EastDurham, Newcastle area, Northumberland, Teesside
North WestCheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Manchester boroughs, Merseyside
Yorks/HumberNorth Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Humber area
WalesAll Wales
West MidlandsBirmingham, Black Country, Cheshire, Coventry and Solihull, Hereford & Worcestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire
East MidlandsDerbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire
Anglia Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk
South WestBristol Area, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire
LondonAll London Boroughs
South EastBerkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex

These are the same as the current administrative regional definitions.


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