Election 2024: Cycling Manifesto Anticipation

By Andrew on June 9, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

You may have noticed…. it’s election time here in the UK. For the previous two elections, I examined the manifestos of the main parties to discover how many times they mentioned the word ‘cycling’. I have posted the results of my research at the foot of this email but to summarise, in 2017, the Green Party made mention of cycling twice, Labour and the Liberal Democrats once and the others not at all. In 2019, things had improved, a little. The Greens were still top of the list with 6 mentions of ‘cycling’ with the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives equal second with 4. Labour mentioned the word twice and the other parties not at all.

Cycling UK has just published its own wish-list cycling manifesto (see below) and it will be interesting to compare it to what is actually published by the main political parties this coming week in their own manifestos. Watch this space!

Here are the results from 2017:

By December 2019, things had improved, slightly. Here are those results:

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