Add to ORKGThe British electoral system treats parties disproportionately and differentially. This original study of the fourteen general elections held between 1950 and 1997 shows that the amount of bias in those election results increased substantially over the period, benefiting Labour at the expense of the Conservatives. Labour's advantage peaked at the 1997 general election when, even assuming there had been an equal share of the votes for the two parties, it would have won 82 more seats than its opponents. This situation came about because of different aspects of two well-known electoral abuses - malapportionment and gerrymandering. With the use of imaginative diagrams the book examines these processes in detail, illustrating how they operate an...
Simple plurality election systems (commonly known as 'First-Past-The-Post') are often associated wit...
This book offers a novel perspective on British elections, focusing on the importance of increasing ...
Abundant research provides evidence that electoral systems have an impact on party system fragmentat...
There is general agreement that first-past-the-post in single-member constituencies is one of the mo...
Since their first elections in 1973, the thirty-six metropolitan borough councils in England's six m...
Not to be cited without the authors ’ consent 1 To many observers, the result of the 2005 United Kin...
The electoral system in the United Kingdom is generally considered as the simplest method of voting ...
Analyses of both aggregate-level constituency data and individual-level survey data from the 1983–20...
The previous Coalition government attempted to redraw the boundaries of the UK’s Parliamentary const...
Multiple factors can be offered to explain the Labour victory, and Conservative defeat, in the 2001 ...
Multiple factors can be offered to explain the Labour victory, and Conservative defeat, in the 2001 ...
Simple plurality election systems (commonly known as `First-Past-The-Post`) are often associated wit...
Simple plurality election systems (commonly known as 'First-Past-The-Post') are often associated wit...
The first-past-the-post electoral system employed in British general elections has remained virtuall...
Building on the unfinished research program of Gudgin and Taylor (1979), we analytically derive the ...
Simple plurality election systems (commonly known as 'First-Past-The-Post') are often associated wit...
This book offers a novel perspective on British elections, focusing on the importance of increasing ...
Abundant research provides evidence that electoral systems have an impact on party system fragmentat...
There is general agreement that first-past-the-post in single-member constituencies is one of the mo...
Since their first elections in 1973, the thirty-six metropolitan borough councils in England's six m...
Not to be cited without the authors ’ consent 1 To many observers, the result of the 2005 United Kin...
The electoral system in the United Kingdom is generally considered as the simplest method of voting ...
Analyses of both aggregate-level constituency data and individual-level survey data from the 1983–20...
The previous Coalition government attempted to redraw the boundaries of the UK’s Parliamentary const...
Multiple factors can be offered to explain the Labour victory, and Conservative defeat, in the 2001 ...
Multiple factors can be offered to explain the Labour victory, and Conservative defeat, in the 2001 ...
Simple plurality election systems (commonly known as `First-Past-The-Post`) are often associated wit...
Simple plurality election systems (commonly known as 'First-Past-The-Post') are often associated wit...
The first-past-the-post electoral system employed in British general elections has remained virtuall...
Building on the unfinished research program of Gudgin and Taylor (1979), we analytically derive the ...
Simple plurality election systems (commonly known as 'First-Past-The-Post') are often associated wit...
This book offers a novel perspective on British elections, focusing on the importance of increasing ...
Abundant research provides evidence that electoral systems have an impact on party system fragmentat...