Josh Neicho

Josh Neicho is a freelance journalist who has worked on Bite the Ballot and Use Your Voice voter engagement campaigns in the UK.

Election notebook: While the big cities feel the Corbyn surge, working-class voters in the regions are backing the Tories for the first time

Brexit and security fears are driving working-class voters to the Conservatives.

By Josh Neicho

/ 7 Jun 2017

Amiens – a cacophony of voices

What is the political mood in Emmanuel Macron’s home town this week? How is his campaign faring alongside the Le Pen supporters, among the Whirlpool factory workers, the old and young?

By Josh Neicho

/ 20 Apr 2017

Amiens – a cacophony of voices

What is the political mood in Emmanuel Macron’s home town this week? How is his campaign faring alongside the Le Pen supporters, among the Whirlpool factory workers, the old and young?

By Josh Neicho

/ 20 Apr 2017

'Do you cut off your right hand or your left?': the choice facing middle America

Two weeks ago it looked like it was all over. Now, on the eve of the election, Trump has bounced back. What lies behind his enduring popularity?

By Josh Neicho

/ 7 Nov 2016

‘My democratic girlfriends are voting Trump’

After the Republican presidential candidate’s sexism scandal, who are the women still supporting Donald Trump?

By Josh Neicho

/ 14 Oct 2016

Podcast: a younger voter's guide to the European referendum

What is motivating younger voters in the European referendum – and what should?

By Joana Ramiro and Josh Neicho

/ 6 Jun 2016

Opening up democracy in Djibouti: great powers and little battalions

Djibouti holds its presidential election today, and Ismael Omar Guelleh is likely to be re-elected for a fourth term despite an opposition boycott, humiliating court defeat and a massacre. How come?

By Josh Neicho

/ 8 Apr 2016

The individual electoral registration process is a shambles

But it raises deeper questions about our democratic health which must be explored.

By Josh Neicho

/ 27 Oct 2015