General Election Betting

General Election Odds: Betfair Markets unmoved by Sun news

maxliu / 30 September 2009 / Leave a comment

No seismic shifts in the Betfair election markets as Britain's biggest-selling tabloid abandons government......Read more »

General Election Betting: Not even King of Pop's death can disguise extent of Labour's gamble

Chicken Dinner / 29 June 2009 / Leave a comment

Labour have decided to make their last stand in a desperate bid to win the next General Election... and it's going to cost us all a lot of money....Read more »

Politics Betting: Brown at evens to go this month

maxliu / 05 June 2009 / Leave a comment

Initial election results deliver damning verdict on the government as PM launches emergency cabinet reshuffle after Purnell becomes third minister to resign in a week......Read more »

General Election Odds: Miserable week for Labour gets backbenchers thinking

Chicken Dinner / 30 April 2009 / Leave a comment

The tidal wave of bad news continues to crash over Gordon Brown and the waters show no sign of abating......Read more »

Betfair Politics Update: Beleaguered Brown awaits unforeseen economic saviour

Chicken Dinner / 31 March 2009 / Leave a comment

The world's political elite in town but even that brings more pain to under-fire Prime Minister....Read more »

Brown delights Washington but fails to move the needle at home

Chicken Dinner / 05 March 2009 / 1 Comments

Stateside plaudits will have cheered the PM, yet Britain remained unimpressed and he'll need a huge turnaround to even make the next general election as leader let alone win it....Read more »

UK General Election Odds: Punters paint a bleak picture for Labour as Conservatives climb further over weekend

Mike Robb / 26 January 2009 / 1 Comments

The Labour Party now has just an 11 percent chance (odds [9.0]) of securing an overall majority at the next election, according to Betfair customers......Read more »

General Election Betting: Prepare to go to the polls in 2009

The Betfair Contrarian / 22 December 2008 / Leave a comment

The Betfair Contrarian took one look at the odds-on quote for a 2010 election and blew a big, fat raspberry. Ladies and gents of the British Isles, 2009 is vote time and here's why......Read more »

UK General Election Odds: Electoral geography makes a hung parliament a superb value bet

Paul Krishnamurty / 12 December 2008 / Leave a comment

Election betting expert Paul Krishnamurty tells us why betting on no party having an overall majority at the next election is the best political punt he's seen for years......Read more »

UK Election Odds: Mr Brown's game is up

BePolitics.com / 01 December 2008 / 1 Comments

The Pre-Budget Report signals yet another nail in the New Labour coffin. Jonathan Sanders from BePolitics tells us why......Read more »

The Contrarian - Labour will get back off the ropes and buck the odds to win the next general election

The Betfair Contrarian / 31 July 2008 / Leave a comment

The Contrarian rarely troubles the infinite serenity of his mind with politics, not because of the interminable gasbaggery, but because the British biggies come round less frequently than World Cups. But even the dopiest of punters ought to do a massive double take when one of the runners in a...Read more »

2007 Election continues to lengthen on Betfair

Andrew Hughes / 18 October 2007 / Leave a comment

Election this year now a 2.2 chance...Read more »

General Election Betting

Andrew Hughes / 26 September 2007 / Leave a comment

Election fever is a debilitating condition. It can turn the most eloquent of political journalists into trembling hacks, hallucinating about hustings, returning officers and swingometers. And the most infectious place to be at the moment is the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, where every word of every speech is pored...Read more »