Heppell, T orcid.org/0000-0001-9851-6993, Roe-Crines, A and Jeffery, D (2022) The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 2019: An Analysis of the Voting Motivations of Conservative Parliamentarians. Parliamentary Affairs: devoted to all aspects of parliamentary democracy, 75 (1). pp. 113-134. ISSN 0031-2290
Abstract
This article provides an empirical analysis of the voting behaviour of Conservative parliamentarians in the final parliamentary ballot of the Conservative Party leadership election of 2019. We construct a dataset for the parliamentary Conservative Party and then put forward hypotheses that will consider the possible Eurosceptic, party political, economic and/or ideological motivations for the voting behaviour of Conservative parliamentarians in the final parliamentary ballot. Our findings demonstrate that support for Johnson and Hunt was structured around age and voting behaviour in the European Union (EU) membership referendum, with support for Gove drawn from those who voted for May’s Withdrawal Agreement in the first meaningful vote. Other factors, such as the economic impact of Brexit on constituencies and social liberalism, were not found to be statistically significant.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Hansard Society; all rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article published in Parliamentary Affairs. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Oct 2020 14:21 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2022 09:32 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/pa/gsaa046 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:166946 |