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Electoral Geography and Electoral Systems,different constituencies, for example, involves examining spatial variations. In this chapter the focus is on variations in party choice and, in this respect, where people live is an important part of the context within which voters make their decisions; it is a contextual variable.

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Studying British Elections,as with the armed forces, with about three million being registered as ‘service voters’. By 1950 things had settled down and the election of that year is an appropriate point of departure when surveying electoral developments in Britain over the post-war period.

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Alignment and Dealignment,ich most voters saw themselves as belonging to a particular social class and, in turn, identified with and voted for the party thought to do most for people of that class. Then, from around the beginning of the 1970s, a process of ‘dealignment’ — a weakening of voters’ identifications both with soci

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Party Image and Party Leaders, obviously an extreme case: at most, a tiny minority of people really . choose in that way (and probably few people ever did). The key conclusion from the previous chapters is not the trivial point that British voters are unlikely to pore over party manifestos. The point is rather that issues and po

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