From votes to seats : the operation of the UK electoral system since 1945
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From votes to seats : the operation of the UK electoral system since 1945
Manchester University Press, 2001
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Note
Bibliography: p. [231]-236
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780719058516
Description
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. 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. -- .
Table of Contents
- 1. From votes to seats - disproportionality, seats, votes, ratios and vote types
- 2. Biases between the two main parties
- 3. Bias and The Boundary Commissions
- 4. Variations in tumout and their impact on the outcome
- 5. Wasted and surplus votes - campaigning and increased vote effectiveness 6. Tactical voting - increasing vote effectiveness even more
- 7. Towards reform
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: pbk ISBN 9780719058523
Description
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. 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. -- .
Table of Contents
1. From votes to seats - disproportionality, seats, votes, ratios and vote types
2. Biases between the two main parties
3. Bias and The Boundary Commissions
4. Variations in turnout and their impact on the outcome
5. Wasted and surplus votes - campaigning and increased vote effectiveness
6. Tactical voting - increasing vote effectiveness even more
7. Towards reform -- .
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