General Election resources

If you would like to follow General Election news, comment and analysis in the media, remember that the library gives you access to the content of hundreds of current UK newspapers through Lexis Nexis.

Want to know what others are asking about the General Election? Google have analysed some election-related search data and packaged it up very prettily. For example, they say that these are are the top questions being asked over the past 7 days about the General Election:

Image taken from https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/story/GB_cu_qOKggVsBAABT4M_en

Heather Dawson, librarian at the London School of Economics, has done a great round up of freely available resources for starting your research on elections in the UK, including data sets and historical resources.

Academic and practical analysis of the results will be available from other library resources soon, so keep your eye out for more links in the coming week. We’re on the edge of our seats!