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Greater Lincolnshire CA Mayoral Election: ➡️ Jenkyns (RFM): 42.0% 🌳 Waltham (CON): 26.1% 🌹 Stockwood (LAB): 12.3% 🏘️ Overton (LincsInds): 8.0% 🌍 Horscroft (GRN): 6.1% 🔶 Young (LDM): 5.5% Reform WIN. electionmaps.uk/le2025

Important pattern in Northumberland with Reform doing less well (& Tories holding on) in more rural wards. The Reform surge is largely urban & periurban. It will be interesting to see if this pattern holds in other councils as results come in today.

Lincolnshire shows different pattern to Northumberland. Reform dominating rural wards so far. Only non-Reform wins are urban or small town wards in Lincoln & Spalding. Which pattern will be more typical at the end of the day?

New post just out A fascinating guest post from Jane Green and Marta Miori looking at Reform's performance last week. Are we seeing an end to two-party politics or its reinvention? (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/the-reform-r…

Romania: According to final results, Simion (AUR–ECR) secured a sweeping victory, winning in nearly every county. Antonescu (PSD/PNL/UDMR – S&D|EPP) performed well in areas with a high proportion of ethnic Hungarians. While Dan (*–RE) won in just two key urban centres: Cluj and

Who gained where in this year's local elections? newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

Romania: Dan (*–RE), the centrist mayor of Bucharest, prevailed in nearly all Transylvanian counties and major urban areas such as Bucharest, Cluj, Iași and Timișoara, reflecting backing from more urbanized counties. Meanwhile, Simion (AUR–ECR) secured a majority in most

My debut piece for the Observer is up on their website. It's on the global crisis of the centre-right and why its lost its way. (Free to read) observer.co.uk/news/politics/…

Excepting Hungarian majority areas, Romania’s presidential election runoff showed a rural-urban divide, including small towns vs rural hinterlands, with far-right George Simion polling especially strongly in the rural south east.

New on our free Substack: Notes from Appalachia. What's behind Trump's landslide in eastern Kentucky? Musings on our scoping visit & reading and thoughts on how we'll approach case study fieldwork (with a little myth-busting). open.substack.com/pub/ruralspati…

The story of the decline of Democratic elected leaders in Kentucky coal country is a story of how the Democrats lost America’s rural working class. Read: jacobin.com/2025/06/kentuc…

If you found Jacobin's article on Democrats losing Kentucky coal country interesting, have a read of our free Substack essay 'Notes from Appalachia' on our research on links between rural discontent, spatial justice and support for Trump in east Kentucky: ruralspatialjustice.substack.com/p/notes-from-a…

New article w/ Kostya Ovsiannikov: “In decline, but not left behind? Electoral behavior in Japan‘s depopulating regions“ Brief summary below tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I talked to Time about the role of agricultural politics in the upcoming Upper House elections.