Finland elections April 2015

The 2015 Finnish parliamentary election was held on 19 April 2015
The Ministry of Justice has an official website in English. This provides free access to information on the electoral system, lists of registered parties,  Results will be posted on a special elections page.
For past elections data the European Election database has results on presidential, European and parliamentary elections from approximately 2009 onwards. Statistics Finland has detailed data on voter turnout, elections results and numbers of candidates. This includes both historic and current data.

Past election studies. For advice on election research see the Election research in Finland portal which has advice on sources. This includes links to National Election studies from 2003 onwards.
The Finnish National Data archive has information on other datasets. some of which can be downloaded from the website. They include voter barometers dating from 1973 onwards. Browse the list
YLE newspaper site (Finnish and English ) has results by district plus analysis. Watch some of their online films of election night.
Read some analysis of the campaigns from the EUROPP blog.
Election Observation Project AEGEE-Europe is monitoring the elections.

Election 2015- this week's update

Election 2015: keep up to date

This week the   major manifesto launches from

Conservative Party

https://www.conservatives.com/manifesto.aspx

Green

https://www.greenparty.org.uk/we-stand-for/2015-manifesto.html

Libdems

http://www.libdems.org.uk/manifesto

UKIP

http://www.ukip.org/manifesto2015

Labour

http://www.labour.org.uk/blog/entry/the-labour-party-manifesto-2015

Welsh labour http://www.welshlabour.org.uk/news/2015/04/16/welsh-labour-manifesto-launch-uk-labour-government-means-extra-power-extra-funding-and-a-fairer-economy-for-wales/

Labout women

http://b.3cdn.net/labouruk/23e5d9b49ea69fc0d4_idm6bh3yq.pdf

Get the full results and more on

Try our scoop.it page which   has  links to the latest manifestos and comment.

http://www.scoop.it/t/election-2015

other major new Sites with content this week

Operation Black vote new campaign http://www.obv.org.uk/FeaturedVideo

Election debate visualisation project

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/the-election-debate-visualisation-project

Election 2015: TV debates.

Democratic reflection App

The Election Debate Visualisation (EDV) project a collaboration between The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) at The Open University and the University of Leeds . It was created in 2010 to analyse sand study the nature and impact of the first televised leaders debates . Its website has details of the study and a number of online research papers with its findings. For 2015 it has created a democratic reflection app which allows users on mobile devices to record instant responses and feedback to the televised debates. The website has examples and details about the ongoing analysis.

For those with Access to Box of Broadcasts the film and transcript of recent debates can be found at

Cameron and Miliband Live 26^th March Channel 4 http://bobnational.net/record/284466

ITV leaders debate 2^nd April http://bobnational.net/record/285939

BBC election debate 16^th April http://bobnational.net/record/288650

Get the full results and more on

Try our scoop.it page which   has  links to the latest manifestos and comment.

http://www.scoop.it/t/election-2015

Heather Dawson

LSE Library

h.dawson@lse.ac.uk

UK election 2015 update.

This week the   Green party launch a spoof boy band video and the TUSC a 100% anti austerity manifesto

In a letter to the Guardian more than 100 senior doctors assess their view of the coalition record on health . Trends on health policy in the election can be tracked using the special Kings Fund Election tracker. The Royal College of Nursing also has a regular weekly round up of health care announcements

Get the full results and more on

Try our scoop.it page which   has  links to the latest manifestos and comment.

http://www.scoop.it/t/election-2015

other major new Sites this week:

labour’s plan for education.

Migration Policy Institute assessment of the impact of immigration on the campaign

Saga has a manifesto for the over 50s

UK election 2015 this week's update

As Nuffield Health releases a survey on the impact of campaigning on the health of prospective MPs
Health 25% have been chased or bitten by dogs!

Get the full results and more on
Try our scoop.it page which has links to the latest manifestos and comment.
http://www.scoop.it/t/election-2015


this includes:
Labour's letter of support from working people
Published in response to Conservative party supporters letter in the Telegraph
Labour Party Business manifesto
Libdem manifesto for the mind

other major new Sites this week:

Voter education sites for the undecided.

Bite the bullet – and Demos have built a youth orientated voter tool called Voter intended to raise voting amongst 18-24 year olds.

Vote Match from Unlock Democracy – uses a simple online quiz to help voters choose their party


Democratic dashboard from Democratic Audit (LSE) provides voters with more in=-depth information about their local constituenc

This includes recent results, voter power (how safe is the seat)

socio economic indicators, forecasts and data on campaign spending.


See LSE Library historic resources

Uzbekistan presidential elections 2015- our recommended links

Presidential elections have been taking place in Uzbekistan
Here are some recomended links for finding more

IFES election guide provides insight into the system and recent research results.

The Official Election Commission website has the latest news results and further background on the system
observation of the conduct of the 2015 elections have been undertaken by Organization of Islamic Cooperation

and the OSCE the website includes statements from recent and past elections.

Concerns about the democratic structure have also been raised by Human Rights Watch
UK Foreign and Commonwealth office in its 2014 annual report
Amnesty International
United Nations human rights reports relating to Uzbekistan.

Nigeria Presidential elections 2015 - our recommended research resources.

Get a basic introduction to the elections, main candidates and electoral system from the BBC service

Independent Electoral Commission has the official facts. This includes information for voters as well as a researchers area with Risk maps 

Nigeriaelections.org  a project of the Department for International Development (DFID/UKAID) and the West African NGO Network (WANGONeT) it has news and reports promoting free elections in Nigeria.


News coverage
All africa.com aggregates news stories from a range of sources including African
Nigerian Guardian
Vanguard - Nigerian newspaper
Nigerian Observer
Today


Election Observers.

Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) launched a unique Pre-Election Observation, PREO, in 2014 which surveys the situation and risk of political violence.
These organisations will be monitoring the conduct of the elections.
EU
Commonwealth Observers.
African Union.
ECOWAS 
International Republican Institute
NDI
Nigerian Civil Society situation room - NGOs within Nigeria monitoring the conduct.

Analysis
Council for Foreign Relations analysis.
Chatham House.
Brookings Institution
International Crisis Group

Israel elections - our recommended links

Early elections for the twentieth Knesset will be held in Israel on 17 March 2015.
The Official website of the Central Electoral Commission  provides information in English about the electoral system and procedure.


Polls
Haartz has a polls site which provides useful predictions of the possible outcome.
BICOM, the Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre, (British organisation dedicated to creating a more supportive environment for Israel in Britain) polls.
Jeremy's Knesset insider from a political analyst also has commentary on recent polls.
Project 61 Run by analyst Nehemia Gershuni, and drawing its name from the 61 seats required to form a majority coalition in the Knesset, also has a twitter account.

 News services
Israel elections com is summarising polls and analysis from Israeli sources.
Times of Israel 
Jerusalem Post - also Lahav Harkov, Knesset reporter at the Jerusalem Post
Al-Jazeera coverage
Middle East Monitor has some info graphics on key issues
Guardian
Channel 2’s Amit Segal to Channel 10s Nadav Perry,
Economist.

Think Tank resources
Israel Democracy  Institute
includes articles, polls analysis of voters.
Brookings Institution analysis of Israel, politics and elections
Council on Foreign relations - analysis of Israel and foreign policy
Rand - analysis of Israel and security

Israel National Election studies has links to data and analysis of previous elections from 1969 onwards.