Tag Archives: UK General Election

The betting market’s reputation as the best political outcome poll/indicator has taken a bit of a beating,  with the Conservative Party winning a slight majority after yesterday’s General Election. Throughout the build up to the 7 May General Election, political betting markets had favoured a Hung Parliament which would be led by a Labour Minority. Bookmakers William Hill, Coral and …

The Daily Telegraph has reported that several hedge funds have ramped up their bets against Ladbrokes Plc, ahead of the 7 May UK General Election. The newspaper reports that the proportion of shares out on loan, a metric for short-selling has risen by 8.9%, the highest Ladbrokes has seen since October 2013. At present Ladbrokes are the seventh most shorted …

Tomorrow sees one of the closest UK General Elections for 40 years and it feels like a pivotal one for the gambling industry. None of the outcomes are good for our sector, just varying degrees of how bad the impact is going to be on us. Given the long run up to the election, the campaigning parties have not touched …

With the political campaigning and inevitable spin hotting up,Betfair has created ‘Unspin it’, an app designed to unpick the political language of misdirection and misinformation. Betfair’s ‘Unspin it’ app light-heartedly solves the problem by using a three stage process allowing consumers to choose the topics they want to hear about from specific politicians. A fruit machine style device appears with 3 …

Coral today released its latest General Election Betting Forecast based on the current betting markets which shows Labour making ground on the Tories at the expense of the SNP. The Coral forecast is a mathematical model that uses the odds on constituencies to calculate the overall number of seats that each party is most likely to win. In the latest …

With the UK General Election voting day less than a month away, bookmaker Boylesports has published in-depth data into their General Election betting markets. At present it appears that the Conservative Party have the upper as they head the betting at 2/5 to win the most seats. Labour Party are next at 7/4 with UKIP and Liberal Democrat’s all but out …

Betfair has announced the launch its special Betfair Predicts app, which will aim to show how the Betfair Exchange  is monitoring the UK 2015 General Election. The app has been developed and designed by Betfair partner technology development firm Grand Parade. Betfair’s Exchange has a track record of calling political outcomes correctly; most recently calling a “No” vote at the …