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Data Release: 2024 Election Provisional Panel Dataset

21/06/2024

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

11/06/2024

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

13/05/2024

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 BES Post-Doctoral Positions

16/06/2023

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…

What’s next for British elections?

21/03/2023

At a Westminster briefing event held on 20 March in partnership with UK in a Changing Europe (UKiCE), Professors Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green and Dr Jack Bailey from the British Election Study’s (BES) scientific team shared early findings from the most recent BES data (December…