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BES Insights: Incumbency and Dissatisfaction in the 2024 UK General Election
James Griffiths and Stuart Perrett The British Election Study team explores how the circumstances heading into the 2024 UK General Election compare to the that of the last three elections. Recent results from the BES 2024 Provisional Election Panel Dataset demonstrate that the Conservatives have…
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…
BES Insights: Changing fortunes amid stable alignment: 2024 intentions in light of...
James David Griffiths and Stuart Perrett The 2024 UK General Election is upon us and the British Election Study team has produced the 2024 Election Provisional Panel Dataset, which includes data from Wave 26 (May 2024). In this blog, the team provides some initial insights…
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)….
British Election Study in the 2024 General Election
The announcement of the date of the 2024 British general election may have taken many of us by surprise, but the British Election Study (BES) team has been able to react quickly and will soon release the most recent wave of data from its 30,000-person…
Celebrating 60 Years of the British Election Study
The British Election Study (BES) is one of the longest running election studies world-wide and the longest running social science survey in the UK. Now in its 60th year, we look at the contribution the BES makes to the understanding of political attitudes and electoral behaviour…
New blog: Brexit continues to separate voters, but the Conservatives are losing...
James David Griffiths, Ed Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Geoffrey Evans, and Dan Snow Brexit still shapes political support, despite the collapse in Conservative vote. Recent electoral shocks are splitting the Tories on the pro- and anti-Europe wings of the party, although there was a large group…
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…