So How Bad Were They for the Conservatives? The 2022 Local Elections
| Author | John Curtice |
| Published date | 01 June 2022 |
| Date | 01 June 2022 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/20419058221108774a |
4POLITICAL INSIGHT•JUNE 2022
The annual round of English local
elections at the beginning of May
each year is always the subject of
considerable interest. Polls may
act as a barometer of public opinion, but
real votes in real ballot boxes provide a vivid
political picture that no set of dry polling
statistics can match. This year’s contests
were greeted with particular anticipation
because they took place when the polls said
for the rst time since the 2019 election that
the Conservatives were behind Labour in
So How Bad Were
They for the
Conservatives? The
2022 Local Elections
John Curtice analyses May’s local elections and finds that while
the results did not put Boris Johnson’s premiership in immediate
jeopardy, they should give Conservatives serious cause for concern.
popularity – following controversy about the
Prime Minister’s ethics and probity arising
from the Owen Paterson aair and ‘partygate’.
Perhaps the results would persuade
Conservative MPs that it was time to seek a
new leader?
No dramatic headlines
In truth, this year’s local elections were
never likely to produce dramatic headlines
of Conservative losses. The elections took
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