This article on the current state of the political left in France includes a comparative study of electoral trends in Canada, the UK, Italy, Sweden, Germany and Spain. It identifies the strengths and weaknesses of parties on the left, changing voter profiles, and strategies for political renewal.
Meticulous planning, statistical rigour, high quality data collection, sophisticated analysis techniques and in-depth knowledge of doing it across the world, are the key five success factors for the success of News18-Ipsos in predicting the 2019 general election of India most accurately.
With service delivery in the spotlight over the last few months, the most important post-1994 election in South Africa’s history will take place on Wednesday 8 May 2019 and, in spite of the electorate’s unhappiness about service delivery and other issues, it is unlikely that the low turnout figure and the phenomenon of ANC “stay-away voters” of the local government elections of August 2016 will be repeated.