Todd K. Hartman

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Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science and Director of the Sheffield Q-Step Centre (The University of Sheffield); Statistical Ambassador (Royal Statistical Society), University of Sheffield

PA/ Andrew Matthew

June 8, 2017

Todd K. Hartman, University of Sheffield

The exit poll published at 10pm suggests the Conservatives could fall short of a parliamentary majority. Is it to be believed?

Quite a surprising result for this man. Joe Giddens/PA

June 2, 2017

Todd K. Hartman, University of Sheffield; Charles Pattie, University of Sheffield, and Ron Johnston, University of Bristol

With just a week until the vote, the polling agency has thrown a cat among the pigeons. Here’s how to understand the poll everyone is talking about.

One seat that’s a lot less marginal this time around. skittledog

May 5, 2015

Todd K. Hartman, University of Sheffield

Thanks to the efforts of Lord Ashcroft, we’ve got a much better idea of where the marginal seats really lie.

Off centre. Dartboard image via www.shutterstcok.com

March 26, 2015

Todd K. Hartman, University of Sheffield

Democracy is going in drastically different directions in the UK and US, but politics isn’t getting any better in either.