UK Conservative and Labour MP Electoral Performance and Ideology, 2010-2019

Replication data for a study on the electoral impact of an MP's ideological position within their party. The dataset contains information on Conservative and Labour MPs elected or re-elected in 2010 who contested subsequent elections. It was authored by Kieran Wright and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling electoral performance based on ideological positioning within a party.
• Analyzing constituency characteristics as factors in re-election outcomes.
• Comparing the electoral trajectories of Conservative and Labour MPs over multiple elections.

Strengths

• Covers three subsequent UK general elections (2015, 2017, 2019) for a defined cohort.
• Includes data for both major UK political parties (Conservative and Labour).
• Links MP-level ideological data to constituency-level characteristics.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Kieran Wright Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official election results and ideological scoring methods.

Time Range

2010 to 2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-11 10:41:14; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom