psephologist
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psephologists
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Mr Sunak's comments reflect analysis by leading psephologist Prof Michael Thrasher for Sky News - which suggested Labour would win 294 seats at a general election.
From BBC ● May 6, 2024
"The message which has gone out is that India has really emerged very strong in the world," said Sanjay Kumar, psephologist at New Delhi's Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.
From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2023
In a 63-page memo to the court, they explained their rationale for the changes in painstaking detail, including enough voting data to sate the most ardent psephologist.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2022
Sam Wang, a neuroscience professor at Princeton and part-time psephologist, kept a pre-election promise to eat an insect on live television if Mr Trump won more than 240 electoral-college votes.
From Economist ● Jun. 15, 2017
She mentions an article that famously accurate US psephologist Nate Silver published on his website, fivethirtyeight.com.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2016
However, psephologists scoured the Gorton and Denton result for clues on how a nationwide vote might play out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Pollsters and psephologists judge this as the most wildly unpredictable election in modern memory.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2019
The prospective coalition that had, until today, tickled the passions of psephologists everywhere was a binding together of the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party, or S.N.P.
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2015
Still - his career is going to end up being studied by psychologists, rather than psephologists.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2010
By 9 p.m., when Vermont had plopped into the Democratic column and television's psephologists flatly declared Johnson the winner, the answer became obvious: very, very big.
From Time Magazine Archive
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