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UK General Election 2024 #5 – My Final Forecast as of 3rd July 2024

July 3, 2024 By Nigel Marriott

My third and final forecast of the number of seats to be won by each party in the 2024 UK General Election is –

  • CON 130 (+17)
  • LAB 420 (-17)
  • LD 50
  • SNP 25
  • GRN 3
  • PC 2
  • REF 2
  • OTH NI 18

The numbers in brackets are the changes from my second forecast of 30th June 2024.

This article is based on polling data as of 2000 on 3rd July 2024.  If more polling data comes in and causes me to change my forescript, the changes will be detailed in a postscript at the end of the article.

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UK General Election 2024 #4 – My Forecast as of 30th June 2024

June 30, 2024 By Nigel Marriott

My second forecast of the number of seats to be won by each party in the 2024 UK General Election is –

  • CON 113 (+5)
  • LAB 437 (-5)
  • OTH 100 (unch)

The numbers in brackets are the changes from my first forecast of 23rd June 2024.

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UK General Election 2024 #3 – My Forecast as of 23rd June 2024

June 23, 2024 By Nigel Marriott

My first forecast of the number of seats to be won by each party in the 2024 UK General Election is –

  • CON 108
  • LAB 442
  • OTH 100

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UK General Election 2024 #2 – My Forecasting Model

June 22, 2024 By Nigel Marriott

My UK General Election 2024 forecasting model will be a top down version which I last used in 2010.  Top down approaches first predict how many seats each party will win in total before seeking to identify which seats each party wins.  This differs from the bottom-up approach I used in 2017 & 2019 where I forecast the outcome for each seat first and then aggregated the forecasts.

Here I explain how my 2024 forecast will be made but it finishes with a warning that I may have to dump my 2024 model in favour of the forecasting approach I used for the 2015 general election.

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