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Title: FROM VOTES TO SEATS
THE OPERATION OF THE UK ELECTORAL SYSTEM SINCE 1945
By: Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie, Danny Dorling
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0719082854
ISBN 13: 9780719082856
Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 30 November, 2011
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Pages: 272
Description: The British electoral system treats parties disproportionately and differentially. This 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.
Synopsis: The 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 - which operate despite the non-partisan redistribution processes involved in defining new constituencies conducted on five occasions by the independent Boundary Commissions during the period studied. With the use of imaginative diagrams the book examines these processes in detail, illustrating how they operate and stresses the important role of tactical voting in the production of recent election results.The book will be of great interest to all students of the British electoral system, not least those concerned with its potential reform, for which the authors make detailed proposals.
Illustrations: 107 line drawings and 33 tables
Publication: UK
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Returns: Returnable
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