Can Brown still hold a March 25th Election?

The simple answer is, yes. Here is the timetable from the official Commons’ Briefing Paper, together with the relevant dates.

Proclamation summoning new Parliament/dissolution of old Parliament/issue of writ
Day 0
Monday
March 1st

Receipt of writ
Day 1
Tuesday
March 2nd

Last day for publication of notice of election (4pm)
Day 3
Thursday
March 4th

Last day for delivery of nomination papers/withdrawals of candidature/ appointment of election agents [...]

February 26th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Comment, General | Leave a comment

New Predictions for 2010

As the General Election draws close we will be changing our forecast technique in the New Year to take account of the need for a prediction of the final result of the vote on the day it will occur. At present we forecast for an election taking place on the day of the prediction, but of [...]

December 22nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Comment | 6 comments

Liberal Vision Paper confirms ForecastUK Predictions

Here at Forecast UK we have consistently predicted a Conservative sweep of English Liberal Democrat Seats. Now blogger Guido Fawkes reports on a new Liberal Democrat pressure group paper that agrees with this forecast.

At the LibDem conference this lunchtime a fringe meeting was organised by Liberal Vision, a new pressure group set up by Mark Littlewood, [...]

September 14th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Comment | One comment