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Tactical voting

The latest news and features on tactical voting in UK elections

July 2024

  • Green party town councillor Clare Weightman and Lib Dem parliamentary candidate Paul Follows chat outside Godalming town council

    Greens expel Surrey members who allegedly backed tactical voting against Jeremy Hunt

    ‘Draconian’ bannings, including of two local councillors, follow original candidate’s withdrawal at behest of local party
  • Carol Vorderman

    Tactical voting could wipe the Tories out for a generation. Here’s how I think it should be done

    Carol Vorderman
    Voters are realising that we have the chance of a lifetime to consign this destructive, incompetent party to third place, says broadcaster Carol Vorderman
  • John O'Farrell

    Are you suffering from symptoms of hope? Here’s how to cope with the prospect of a Labour victory

    John O'Farrell
    Friday could be one of the best days ever – but only if we vote Labour, says the author John O’Farrell

March 2024

  • Ed Davey at the Lib Dem Spring Conference Arrivals and Rally in York

    Low-profile Lib Dems are flatlining in the polls – but don’t write them off

    Reform UK is making the headlines but tactical voting can power Ed Davey’s party in seats where they are the Tories’ main challengers

October 2023

  • A voter leaves with their dog, Lilly, after casting their vote at a polling station in Brighton, 12 December 2019

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: which electoral system is the fairest?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

July 2023

  • Yorkshire puddings on a baking tray

    Brief letters
    Yorkshires help the medicine go down

    Brief letters: Yorkshire puddings | Nigel Farage | Starmer’s stance | Tactical voter | Grateful Tories

June 2023

  • A section of The Guitar Player by Johannes Vermeer, which is on display at Kenwood House.

    Brief letters
    The delight of seeing a Vermeer at no cost

  • Young woman with hearing aid taking selfie with smartphone<br>HX004K Young woman with hearing aid taking selfie with smartphone

    Brief letters
    Let’s end the stigma around hearing aids

January 2023

  • Nurses hold placards in support of fair pay and the NHS during the demonstration outside University College Hospital in London last week.

    Lib Dems target ‘blue wall’ Tory voters angry about NHS crisis

  • Lib Dem MP Richard Foord celebrates his June 2022 byelection win in Tiverton and Honiton

    Lib Dems plan ‘Labour squeeze’ in fight for suburban Tory seats

June 2022

  • Liberal Democrats party candidate Richard Foord holds a victory rally in Tiverton<br>British Liberal Democrat MP for Tiverton and Honiton Richard Foord and Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey uncover a door during a victory rally in Tiverton, Britain June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Paul Childs

    Conservatives’ alarm grows over threat of tactical voting in safe seats

    Last week’s byelection losses saw huge swings to the best-placed Tory opponent – without any formal electoral pact

December 2021

  • Will Hutton

    To topple Johnson, now it’s time for all good progressives to come to the aid of... the Lib Dems

    Will Hutton
    This week’s byelection in the Tory stronghold of North Shropshire can be a turning point

November 2021

  • Iain Duncan Smith

    Opposition parties ‘can oust Tories’ if they cooperate on seats

    New analysis shows that a ‘progressive alliance’ can overturn the Tory majority by fielding unity candidates in 154 English seats

October 2021

  • Nick Cohen

    If opposition parties abroad can put aside their differences, why can’t Davey, Starmer and co?

    Nick Cohen
    Mock progressive alliances all you like, but they’ve never been more essential

December 2019

  • Luciana Berger canvassing with Hugh Grant in the Finchley and Golders Green constituency,

    Tactical voting was set to be Remainers’ saviour, so what went wrong?

  • Martin Kettle

    This is a Brexit election. But Boris Johnson will not get Brexit done

    Martin Kettle
  • Steve Coogan campaigning with Oli Henman in Lewes

    I’ve always been Labour, but tomorrow I will be voting tactically

    Steve Coogan
  • A polling station in Lewisham, London

    Voting tactically? Here’s how to do it right

    Dan Davies

  • In many places voting Lib Dem is the best way to keep Boris Johnson out of No 10

    Jo Swinson

  • Only the left can defeat Tory lies. Now the centre must accept that

    Tom Kibasi
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