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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

94% of Britain's MPs are on X - I've made a website so you can explore who they follow on there. 🔍Search for any username and see which MPs follow them. 🏅There's also a leaderboard so you can see who has the ear of Westminster Link here: site.mpfollowers.workers.dev

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Who Do MPs Follow?

Find out how many UK Members of Parliament follow any Twitter account.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This is important. Reform keep taking positions that are only supported by the 25% of the electorate they already have and in doing so are negatively polarising everyone else against them.

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Tracking our *negative* voting intention (who would Britons vote AGAINST): ➡️ Ref 38% (+9) 🌹Lab 34% (-4) 🌳 Con 7% (-1) 🌏 Green 7% (+4) 🐦‍ LD 3% (-) changes w/ Nov 2025 As Reform has plateaued in the polls, the number of people saying they would also vote *against* Reform has grown

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Dan Wilson Craw @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Interesting chart from @edhodgsoned.bsky.social @moreincommonuk.bsky.social - Labour struggling with renters. May change once Renters Rights Act comes in and if slowdown in rents (reported on BBC today) continues.

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🐧 The public have spoken on the penguins kept in a windowless basement in London Aquarium: 40% think it's unacceptable and just 19% think it's acceptable

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Interesting how much Bluesky usage has fallen - it is now about half of what it was in November 2024 - would be intrigued to know people's theories about why that is

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Fascinated by this way of measuring a Prime Minister's popularity... By the same measure, here's the number of babies given the first name of our PMs one year into office: Keir: 0 Rishi: 37 Liz: 24 Boris: 43 Theresa: 20 David: 1,163 Gordon: 14 Tony: 135 Source: ONS

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Every week we ask who Britons would vote for - this week we asked who they'd vote *against* Here's what a negative voting intention looks like: 🌹Lab 23% ➡️ Ref: 22% 🌳 Con: 10% 🌏 Green: 4% 🐦‍ LD: 4%

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Something really striking about the energy transition in the UK is that, despite having halved our emissions since 1990, very few people are aware of this success - only a quarter of the public think we've made a meaningful difference to cutting our emissions

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Great blog from Rory about where AI rhetoric and policy might reinforce a sense that the government isn't focusing on the issues that people care about

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Really strong connection between life satisfaction and voting intention - people with low life satisfaction are much more likely to take a risk on a smaller or newer party, Labour is only comfortably ahead on people who give their life satisfaction at 10/10

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The standout feature from Reform’s performance in the polls is not how many votes they are winning from the Conservatives and Labour, but how many they are gaining from non-voters. Whether or not these voters actually turn out will shape the next election - a 🧵

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I think this is really interesting and revealing polling, but also worth remembering that in a fragmented/multiparty system these head-to-heads matter less to national vote patterns - it makes no difference if a Green voter prefers Badenoch to Farage if they won't vote for either anyway

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

🆕 Latest @moreincommonuk.bsky.social voting intention. The Tories fall below 20% for the first time in our tracking, and Reform reach above 30% for the first time too. ➡️ REF 31% (+1) 🌹 LAB 22% (nc) 🌳 CON 19% (-2) 🔶 LD 14% (nc) 🌍 GREEN 8% (nc) N = 2,000 | 23-26 May | Change w16-19

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Sign of how things have changed on Twitter/X over the last year: In the 2024 local elections, Green gains won easily the most likes on Twitter. In this year's locals, those were overshadowed by people liking and engaging with Reform wins.

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

At 30% of the vote, Reform UK have now effectively doubled their vote share since the General Election, drawing almost equal amounts of votes from the Conservatives, 2024 non-voters, and Labour and other left-wing parties

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Should you need to have GCSE maths and english to vote in UK elections? A fifth of Britons think so - and younger Britons are most supportive of the idea

A horizontal bar chart titled "A fifth of Britons think you should need GCSEs in Maths and English to vote in elections" shows results from a survey conducted by More in Common in November 2024. The chart presents the views of different age groups on whether people should be required to pass Maths and English GCSEs or their equivalent to vote in UK elections.

Three categories of responses are shown in different colours:

Dark blue: “I fully hold this view”

Light blue: “I partially hold this view”

Red: “I do not hold this view”

Results by group:

All (combined): 21% fully hold the view, 25% partially hold it, and 54% do not hold it.

Gen Z (18–26): 33% fully, 29% partially, 39% do not hold the view.

Millennials (27–43): 22% fully, 25% partially, 53% do not hold the view.

Gen X (44–59): 19% fully, 27% partially, 53% do not hold the view.

Baby Boomers (60–74): 17% fully, 22% partially, 62% do not hold the view.

Silent Generation (75+): 16% fully, 23% partially, 61% do not hold the view.

Gen Z has the highest percentage (33%) who fully support the requirement, while the Silent Generation has the lowest (16%). Opposition to the idea is strongest among Baby Boomers (62%) and the Silent Generation (61%).

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

One way to measure levels of polarisation between different voter groups is to assess whether people can understand or explain why people might vote for another party: On this measure, Liberal Democrat voters are the least understanding of what might be driving people to Reform

Bar chart titled "38% of Britons say they see no reason to vote for Reform UK." It presents survey responses to the question: "In your view which of the following, if any, are the main reasons to vote for Reform UK?" showing the percentage of people who selected "I see no reason to vote for Reform UK" from a list of 18 options. The chart breaks down responses by 2024 General Election vote:

All: 38%

Conservative: 27%

Labour: 47%

Liberal Democrat: 62%

The Green Party: 44%

Did not vote: 39%

Source: More in Common, May 2025.

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Number of wards won with more than 50% of the vote: 🌹 Labour: 3 (!!) 💚 Greens: 9 🕴️ Independents: 14 🌳 Conservatives: 27 🐦 Liberal Democrats: 55 ↗️ Reform: 66 (!!)

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

There has been lots of talk about a theoretical Tory-Reform pact at a national level - but look locally and around the country these parties will have to work together if they want to administer their county councils, where a Reform-Tory deal is the only way to get a majority.

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Expect we will see more and more charts like this by the end of the day - an absolutely totalising rise of Reform in Staffordshire, which has be solidly Conservative for 16 years

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

If Runcorn really is within 4 votes it would be the closest result in a by-election in modern history. Only 2 parliamentary by elections since World War 2 have been decided by fewer than 100 votes.

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Looking at initial data from Northumberland - it's revealing (and to some extent surprising) that Reform are performing best in the more Labour-y areas, and doing less well in more Conservative areas - could signal more worry for Labour later tonight

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Turnout in Northumberland so far looks more or less spot on what it was in 2021

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Political nerdery is a finite resource... Interest on wikipedia for UK local elections peaked in 2021 and has been declining ever since

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🔥 Putting my geography degree to good use and looking at some historic weather data - Today is Britain's hottest local election on record! Typically, warm weather can increase turnout, but today's unseasonably hot May day could have the opposite effect if it ends up TOO hot...

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Some dramatic age profiles for voting intention at these local elections: Steep drop-off in Lab and Green support with age, Conservatives doing particularly well with the 75+ group, Reform winning among middle-aged voters

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The big test for Reform at these local elections will be if they can convince their voters to come out to vote - in our polling, Reform voters are the LEAST likely to say they usually vote in locals, but the MOST likely to say they'll definitely vote in these ones

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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?

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Our polling shows Reform are likely win the mayoralty in Hull and East Yorkshire next week - to find out why people are voting for Reform we’ve been holding focus groups across the mayoralty for the last week. Here’s what I learned from a group of voters in Hull on Thursday 🧵

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

For St George's day, here's how English voters would vote based on how proud they are to be English: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Very proud: Reform ahead by 6 pts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Somewhat proud: Tories ahead by 2 pts 🤷‍♂️ Neither proud nor ashamed: Labour ahead by 7 pts 🚫🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ashamed: Greens ahead by 3 pts

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Public opinion on issues like this is not unmovable - but this certainly goes agains the grain of even Reform voters, who are strongly opposed to allowing imports of chlorinated chicken to secure a trade deal

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

In an electorate this fragmented, MRP modelling reveals some extremely unprecedented and unusual results - here is a thread of some of the more interesting details from this model… 🧵

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Looking at demographics for the four mayoralties up for election in May - the range of educational level is quite substantial and probably says a fair amount about what the results will be in each...

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We’ve had some great feedback on our report on Progressive Activists and are keen to work with orgs that want to get the best from progressive workforces. Though I’ve seen a handful of people have interpreted what we’re saying as progressives need to be more centrist and wanted to respond to that. 🧵

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 16/01/2025

‘Our polling suggests viewers who would prefer to play as a Faithful are more likely to vote Labour, and ones who would prefer to play as a Traitor are more likely to vote Tory. How can we explain this?’ 🖋 @moreincommonuk.bsky.social’s @edhodgsoned.bsky.social buff.ly/4hirex2

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There's a very good reason why Tories are more likely to be Traitors

Our polling also found that Reform polls 5 per cent better with traitors than faithful

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Here's an alternative look at Britain's current voting intention: 6 in 10 of today's Reform UK voters come from the Boris Johnson block of Conservative voters, which has completely splintered since 2019.

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

One striking consequence of this is that Labour would loose three quarters of their rural constituencies, and Labour's hold over rural Britain would fall from a third of rural constituencies to just under a tenth, while the Conservatives regain most of their rural strongholds

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Nick Plumb @nickplumb.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We've seen an 85% decline in department stores over this last decade. This report sets out how communities are charting a new path for these national institutions.

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Made this chart yesterday and can't stop thinking about it - how Brits plan to vote according to what they see as the top issues...

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

As part of our commitment to transparency, excited that today we are releasing the raw microdata behind this poll so that other researchers can explore the data in much more detail

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Quite a striking gap: Private sector workers are 16 pts more likely to say they are satisfied with their work lives than people who work in the public sector

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Over the weekend we asked the public whether they thought Parliament made the right or wrong decision by voting in favour of the assisted dying bill - 62% said right decision and only 16% opposed. A short 🧵 of other reactions from the public to the Bill's passage...

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

NEW - We don't know the ages of every MP, but for those we do, younger MPs were much more likely to vote in favour of assisted dying. The average "aye" voter was 5 years younger than the average "no" voter.

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

🧵Lots of discussion about unhappiness with the social contract recently. Some of our new findings on how that might be linked to growing electoral fragmentation. 1) Reform & Green voters are significantly more likely to say their parents will have had a more comfortable life than they will have.

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

One surprising thing about British support for assisted dying is that support is not a sign of increasingly liberal attitudes over time, but goes back decades and is basically unwavering. Here's a Gallup poll from *1950* showing support outnumbering opposition 2 to 1

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Having spent the last months researching public opinion on assisted dying, one of the most interesting things has been how it doesn't polarise along traditional lines of political party, gender, socioeconomic group, or region. So what does shape public opinion on this? 🧵....

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Pretty striking from the British Social Attitudes Survey: In 2016, 58% of Brits supported trans people's right to change their legal sex; by 2022 that number had halved to just 31%

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Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

🏳️‍🌈🗳️ - Just seven percent of the UK voted for the Green Party at this election, but 14% of gay and bisexual people did - including more than a fifth (22%!) of bisexual women

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