From Votes to Seats: The Operation of the Uk Electoral System Since 1945 by Danny Dorling, Charles Pattie, Daniel Dorling, David Rossiter, Ron Johnston (Paperback, 2001)
The British electoral system treats parties disproportionately and differentially. This original study of the 14 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Manchester University Press
ISBN-13
9780719058523
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96743140
Product Key Features
Author
Danny Dorling, Charles Pattie, Daniel Dorling, David Rossiter, Ron Johnston
Publication Name
From Votes to Seats: the Operation of the Uk Electoral System since 1945
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government, Politics
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Daniel Dorling, Ron Johnston, Danny Dorling, Charles Pattie, David Rossiter
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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