Various newspapers, organisations and individuals endorsed parties or individual candidates for the 2015 general election
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Newspaper | Main endorsement | Secondary endorsement(s) | Notes | Link | ||
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Daily Express | UKIP | Conservative | Endorsed the UK Independence Party. | [1] | ||
Daily Mail | Conservative Party | UKIP | Supported a Conservative government. Encouraged anti-Labour tactical voting. | [2] | ||
Liberal Democrats | ||||||
Daily Mirror
(& other Reach plc owned papers) |
Labour | Liberal Democrats | Endorsed a Labour government. Supported tactically voting LibDem against the Conservatives in marginal seats. | [3] [4] | ||
Daily Telegraph | Conservative | None | [5] | |||
Financial Times | Conservative | Liberal Democrats | Endorsed a Conservative-led coalition. | [6] | ||
The Guardian | Labour Party | Green | Endorsed the Labour Party. Also supported Green and Liberal Democrat candidates where they were the main opposition to the Conservatives. | [7] | ||
Liberal Democrats | ||||||
The Independent | Liberal Democrats | Conservative | Endorsed a second term of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. | [8] [9] | ||
Metro | None | |||||
Morning Star | Labour | Communist | Endorsed the Labour Party in opposition to the Conservative Party. | [10] | ||
News Line | Workers Revolutionary | Labour | Endorsed a vote for the seven Workers Revolutionary Party candidates, Labour elsewhere. | [11] | ||
The Sun | Conservative | Liberal Democrats | Supported voting for the Liberal Democrats in 14 Labour/LibDem marginals. | [12] | ||
The Times | Conservative | Liberal Democrats | Endorsed a second term of Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. | [13] |
Newspaper | Main endorsement | Secondary endorsement(s) | Notes | Link | ||
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New Worker | Labour | None | [14] | |||
Weekly Worker | Labour | Minor left-wing and far-left parties. | Endorsed 39 left-wing Labour candidates. The paper also supported Left Unity, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, Communist Party of Britain, Respect Party, Socialist Labour Party, Socialist Party of Great Britain, Workers Revolutionary Party, Class War Party, Socialist Equality Party, Republican Socialists and Communist League. | [15] |
Newspaper | Main endorsement | Secondary endorsement(s) | Notes | Link | ||
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Peace News | Green | Labour | Endorsed Greens and left-wing Labour candidates. Supported candidates who commit to the '2050 decarbonisation goal and/or to not replacing Trident'. | [16] |
Newspaper | Party endorsed | Notes | Link | |
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Independent on Sunday | None | Newspaper stated in an editorial that it was not advising readers how to vote in 2015. | [17] | |
Mail on Sunday | Conservative | [18] | ||
The Observer | Labour | [19] | ||
Sunday Express | UKIP | [20] | ||
Sunday Mirror | Labour | [21] | ||
Sunday People | Labour | [22] | ||
Sunday Telegraph | Conservative | [23] | ||
Sunday Times | Conservative | [24] |
Magazine | Party endorsed | Notes | Link | |
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Economist | Conservative | Endorsed a Conservative-led coalition. | [25] |
Magazine | Party endorsed | Notes | Link | |
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New Statesman | Labour | [26] | ||
Spectator | Conservative | [27] |
Newspaper | Party endorsed | Notes | Link | |
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City A.M. | Conservative | [28] | ||
Express & Star | Conservative | [29] Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine | ||
Liverpool Echo | Labour | |||
London Evening Standard | Conservative | Endorsed the Conservative Party, and selective tactical voting for the Liberal Democrats. | [30] | |
Manchester Evening News | None | |||
Southern Daily Echo | Conservative | Urged voters to support the Conservative Party with the exception of those where Liberal Democrats were in lead. | ||
The Yorkshire Post | Conservative | Endorsed a continuation of the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition. | [31] | |
Liberal Democrats |
Newspaper | Party endorsed | Notes | Link | |
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Belfast Telegraph | None | Encouraged everyone in Northern Ireland to exercise their voting rights. | [32] | |
Irish News | None | |||
The News Letter | None | Backed unionist candidates. | [33] Archived 26 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine |
Newspaper | Party endorsed | Notes | Link | |
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Daily Record | Labour | [34] | ||
The Herald | None | Endorsed no political parties. | [35] | |
The National | SNP | [36] | ||
Scotland on Sunday | None | Urged voters to 'vote for the party that comes closest to what you believe in'. | [37] | |
The Scotsman | None | Warned against tactical voting. | [38] | |
The Scottish Sun | SNP | [39] | ||
Sunday Herald | SNP | [40] | ||
Daily Mail Mail on Sunday |
Conservative | Praise in one article for SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, but otherwise anti-SNP and tactical for Tories. | [41] |
Some parties which only contest elections in certain parts of the United Kingdom have endorsed political parties in areas they don't contest