Johnston, R.J., Pattie, C.J. and Manley, D. (2017) Britain's changing electoral map in and beyond 2015: the importance of geography. Geographical Journal, 183 (1). pp. 58-70. ISSN 0016-7398
Abstract
Three geographical elements play major roles in the operation of the UK's electoral system: the geography of support – how spatially segregated each party's voters are; the geographical clustering of those segregated areas; and the constituency boundaries within which those geographies are nested. In the period from 1970 to 2010 as a result of the interaction of these three, Britain's apparent three-party system (four-party in Scotland and Wales) was represented in a series of geographically separate two-party systems. At the 2015 election, although there was little change in support for the two largest parties from the overall situation in 2010, there were substantial changes in the volume and geography of support for the five smaller parties. Those latter changes produced very different geographies in 2015 from those in 2010, with major likely consequences for the next contest in 2020.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Wiley. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Geographical Journal. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Great Britain;general election;2015;electoral geography |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 May 2016 09:18 |
Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2018 00:38 |
Published Version: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12171 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/geoj.12171 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:99060 |