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UK PM Burnham pledges to reform electoral system

Rank
Ran
46h
Updated
4d ago
Closed
Outlets
8
Regions
3
Countries
6
Languages
3

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The Guardian United Kingdom · English 29 Sept, 09:19 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (1) · Italiano (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 46 hours.

2 4 6 8
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Guardian, 29 Sept, 09:19 UTC.
  2. Second country: United States, with Bloomberg.
  3. Second region: Americas, with Bloomberg.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 29 Sept, 14:22 UTC.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

47 of 47 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

13%12%75%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 12%
  • Europe 6 outlets · 4 countries · 75%

First movers

  1. The Guardian 29 Sept, 09:19 UTC
  2. The Independent +5h 3m
  3. Bloomberg +5h 13m
  4. Cyprus Mail +5h 48m
  5. BBC News +6h 36m

Last to join

  1. Il Post 29 Sept, 17:07 UTC
  2. Der Spiegel 29 Sept, 17:04 UTC
  3. TimesLIVE 29 Sept, 15:57 UTC
  4. BBC News 29 Sept, 15:55 UTC
  5. Cyprus Mail 29 Sept, 15:07 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 1 public-service, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 1: United States. Europe 4: Cyprus, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
German, English, Italian.
Timeline
Earliest article The Guardian, 29 Sept 2026, 09:19 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 09:40 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 07:40 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, United Kingdom. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
29 Sept 2026 261 4.85 8 6 8 6 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 09:40 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 07:40 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • TimesLIVE South Africa 29 Sept, 15:57 UTC
    UK PM Burnham wants to scrap the first-past-the-post electoral system

Americas 1 outlet

  • Bloomberg United States 29 Sept, 14:32 UTC
    Burnham Says UK to Review Electoral System With New Commission

Europe 6 outlets

  • The Independent United Kingdom 1 Oct, 07:40 UTC
    Why Burnham’s voting reforms could backfire on Labour
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Andy Burnham vows to reform the UK’s voting system – here’s why 29 Sept, 14:22 UTC
  • Il Post Italy 29 Sept, 17:07 UTC
    Andy Burnham dice che i Laburisti proveranno a cambiare la legge elettorale del Regno Unito
  • Der Spiegel Germany 29 Sept, 17:04 UTC
    Großbritannien: Andy Burnham will Mehrheitswahlrecht abschaffen
  • BBC News United Kingdom 29 Sept, 15:55 UTC
    Burnham to fight next election on pledge to change voting system
  • Cyprus Mail Cyprus 29 Sept, 15:07 UTC
    Burnham wants to scrap first past the post electoral system
  • The Guardian United Kingdom 29 Sept, 09:19 UTC
    Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans
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