A01=Charles Pattie
A01=Daniel Dorling
A01=Danny Dorling
A01=David Rossiter
A01=Ron Johnston
Author_Charles Pattie
Author_Daniel Dorling
Author_Danny Dorling
Author_David Rossiter
Author_Ron Johnston
Category=JPHF
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Product details
- ISBN 9780719058523
- Weight: 376g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2001
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
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
