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Ron Johnston

From Votes to Seats

The Operation of the UK Electoral System Since 1945

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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 o… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Pattie, Charles / Dorling, Daniel
  • ISBN: 978-0-7190-5852-3
  • EAN: 9780719058523
  • Produktnummer: 1696627
  • Verlag: Manchester University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 264 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.4 cm 406 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 406

Über den Autor


Ron Johnston is Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. Charles Pattie is Professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield. Danny Dorling is Professor of Geography at the University Of Leeds. David Rossiter is Research fellow in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol

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