swingometer

He'd be the one with the big swinging swingometer!

A Radio Times election supplement shows the new swingometer.

Radio and television presenter, famed for his election swingometer.

So which way is the swingometer pointing?

But in such a setting Peter Snow's neon swingometer was, frankly, a disappointment.

The swingometer is a graphics device that shows the swing from one party to another on British election results programmes.

Browse the 2010 constituencies and use the three-way swingometer to see how different scenarios affect the outcome.

But my favorite is Swingometer '79.

Enjoy it alongside a midnight feast of smoked salmon sandwiches in front of the swingometer.

'There will be a swingometer operated by the barman and we'll be up throughout the night.'

The swingometer for that election showed not only the national swing, but also the implications of that national swing.

This swingometer merely showed the national swing in Britain but not the implications on that swing on the composition of parliament.

It is similar to the '2D' swingometer used in two-party system elections, but uses the extra dimension to allow swings to occur between three parties.

Disadvantage: What is Welsh for "Swingometer"?

The 3D swingometer is used to illustrate the shift in election results from the previous election in a three-party system.

Nate Silver, who writes that uniform swing modeling "has failed badly in past elections," offers instead an "Advanced Swingometer" (above).

Peter Snow, who has a model railway in his loft, explained why the British love railways and why he preferred trains to his famous swingometer.

Following this use in 1955, the BBC adopted the swingometer on a national basis and it was unveiled in the national broadcasts for the 1959 general election.

An online version of the swingometer, featuring Labour and the Conservatives only, was introduced on the BBC News website at the 2001 general election.

In May 2006, Vine was announced as Peter Snow's replacement for presenting the BBC election graphics, including the famous Swingometer.

Whether or not her swingometer led her to an appropriate purchasing decision, he hasn't heard; in fact, she was dowsing only the organic wines, so it wasn't a completely random process.

He was a prominent on-screen expert on the BBC's election night coverage from the 1950 election to the 1979 election, and was a co-inventor of the swingometer.

Election night television programmes from 1955 have usually featured a device known as the 'swingometer' which consisted of a pendulum which could point to the swing nationally and illustrate the outcome.

In the context of such an overwhelming victory for phallocracy, the BBC's weird decision to focus its hype on Peter Snow's giant swingometer seems to have a certain symbolic logic.

In 2005 the online swingometer was substantially re-designed to include versions featuring the Liberal Democrats, plus information on specific constituencies - including "VIP" seats - won/ lost on different swings.