psephology

How To Use psephology In A Sentence

• There was another bit of the plan I never quiet understood which involved singing Marie Lloyd songs instead of calling the election while it was still winnable, but I don't pretend to have a firm grasp of psephology.
• As you know, psephology is the formal study of elections, apparently trivial but dripping with deep, dark paradoxes.
• David Lindsay is particularly well briefed on the psephology of this. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
• After 40 years of psephology, swingometers and tactical voting, the electorate has over the past four or five general elections shown that it has at last worked out how to impose its will on the politicians, even, as last year, in a quite sophisticated way, under the current flawed dispensation. Letters: Playing the game to put an end to tactical voting
• When I saw The Professor during Plaid Cymru's conference there was still a bit of fine tuning needed in formulating the psephology. Archive 2009-10-01
• Wales and Welsh politics needs a psephology fit for the 21st century, so come on guys, get on the phone to YouGov, somebody. Archive 2009-04-01
• Firstly psephology is the study of election results - you're offering lessons in crystal ball gazing. Guest publication
• Chapter 3, ‘On New Labour's Ups - and Downs ’, is concerned with the impact of psephology (and particularly the 1950s consensus-era electoral analysis of Anthony Downs) on Labour's ‘catch-up’ strategies.
• Richard Dawkins has a touching faith in psephology if he believes that ‘no plausible swing could even bring us close to a Tory majority’.
• Six months after I posted The Price of a Poll it looks like we won't haver much longer to wait for the birth of a Welsh political psephology. Archive 2009-10-01