Patrick Flynn
@patrickjfl
Data Journalist @focaldataHQ. Also on 🦋. (he/him) 🏳️🌈 [email protected]
Hard to overstate just how rapid the changes in US party coalitions have been. The Democrats are now the party of high education *and* high income voters. Just 12 years ago, the inverse was true. On these terms, the Trump coalition was closer to Obama 2008 than the Harris one!
Eyes on this please. newstatesman.com/politics/polli…
Labour about to fall into *sixth* here including independents...
Throston (Hartlepool) council election result: REF: 58.3% (+47.4) LAB: 31.8% (-18.4) CON: 9.9% (+9.9) Reform GAIN from Labour. No Ind (-38.9) as prev. newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…
Not a sign of a healthy democracy, and no indication that these attitudes will improve any time soon. Something’s got to give at some point!
We asked voters in this week's local elections to describe the four largest parties in England in a word - can you guess which is which?
Some reflections for UK audience on the Canadian election. 1/ Canada's election is a close analogy of our 2017 General Election. Massive 2-party consolidation, with the collapse of the Greens, populist right, and the nationalists taking a hit. Massive surge for centre left