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From Votes to Seats
Ronald John Johnston
其他書名
The Operation of the UK Electoral System Since 1945
出版
Manchester University Press
, 2001
主題
History / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
Political Science / General
Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
Political Science / Comparative Politics
Political Science / World / European
ISBN
0719058511
9780719058516
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZaIVAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.