Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The online election battle

Some interesting stats based on election search trends among on line users. Firstly the post debate interest in Nick Clegg seems to be continuing and he may well now be far better known then he was a matter of days ago. While there seems to be interest in Samantha Cameron, there is less so in David himself as he lags behind Gordon Brown, though this may not reflect actual traffic to sites of course, only searches!
1. nick clegg +500%
2. david cameron wife +180%
3. gordon brown +120%
4. samantha cameron +110%
5. labour +110%
6. david cameron wiki +90%
7. david cameron twitter +80%
8. conservatives +50%
9. conservative party +50%
10. david cameron poster +40%
The LibDems can also find great comfort in the numbers of fans they have on Facebook, though they lag behind the Conservatives.
Equally this appears to be a doubling of fans across all parties indicating heightened interest in all things election related. Does this indicate that the Internet is becoming a significant source of information for voters, and so also a significant battle ground that for the first time will be ignored at the parties' peril?

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