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Ed Balls

1967 - Today

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Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a British politician, broadcaster and economist. He served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families from 2007 to 2010, and as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011 to 2015. A member of Labour Co-op, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton and later for Morley and Outwood between 2005 and 2015. Balls attended Nottingham High School before he studied philosophy, politics and economics at Keble College, Oxford, and was later a Kennedy Scholar in economics at the John F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ed Balls has received more than 3,575,921 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ed Balls is the 19,308th most popular politician (down from 17,562nd in 2019), the 7,718th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,886th in 2019) and the 736th most popular British Politician.

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  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ed Balls ranks 19,308 out of 19,576. Before him are Michael C. Burgess, Diana DeGette, Dan Crenshaw, Ann Simons, Li Nina, and Clementa C. Pinckney. After him are Robert Buckland, Petrissa Solja, Yvette Cooper, Maria Miller, Lisa Hanna, and Guo Dan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Ed Balls ranks 909. Before him are Tony Leondis, Bill Shorten, Yoshimasa Suda, Natasha Kaiser-Brown, Philip Kim, and Michael Carruth. After him are Barnaby Joyce, Deepti Bhatnagar, Phil Keoghan, Vicky Bullett, Efan Ekoku, and Charlie Hunter.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ed Balls ranks 7,718 out of 8,785. Before him are Jessie Mei Li (1995), Jamie Bynoe-Gittens (2004), Mark Richardson (1972), Jack Hendry (1995), Nick Dempsey (1980), and Sarah Storey (1977). After him are Tony Cottee (1965), Carlton Palmer (1965), Hope Powell (1966), Robert Buckland (1968), Yvette Cooper (1969), and Tosh McKinlay (1964).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Ed Balls ranks 736. Before him are Esther McVey (1967), Oliver Letwin (1956), Alan Duncan (1957), Justine Greening (1969), John Whittingdale (1959), and Dan Crenshaw (1984). After him are Robert Buckland (1968), Yvette Cooper (1969), Maria Miller (1964), Gavin Williamson (1976), Tom Tugendhat (1973), and David Mundell (1962).

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