Labour electoral landslides and the changing efficiency of voting distributions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8962269 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ron Johnston (0000-0003-3031-8573, University of Bristol, corresponding author), David Rossiter (University of Leeds), Charles Pattie (0000-0003-4578-178X, University of Sheffield), Danny Dorling (0000-0001-9519-0537, University of Leeds) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 336-361 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1475-5661.00058 |
| OpenAlex | W2131652753 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 10 |
The translation of votes into seats under first–past–the–post electoral systems with single–member constituencies invariably results in disproportional allocations of seats relative to votes among the main two parties. It also tends to produce biased outcomes, with one party getting a more disproportionate share of the seats with a given share of the votes than does its opponent. In Great Britain, these biases favoured the Conservative party until the 1980s, but now strongly favour Labour. Production of those biases results from a variety of influences involving the interaction of the geography of party support with that of constituency boundaries. Increasingly, that interaction has favoured Labour: without any explicit manipulation of the constituency map to its own ends, it now benefits substantially from the equivalent of the malapportionment and gerrymandering cartographic abuses typical of the United States, because of its ability to manipulate its vote distribution within the constituency system
Adversary · Business · Computer security · Democracy · Distribution (mathematics · Economics · Electoral geography · Gerrymandering · Microeconomics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Production (economics · Variety (cybernetics · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Disproportionality and Bias in the Results of the 2005 General Election in Great Britain
Electoral Costs and Local Public Institutions’ Role in Voter Turnout
Magnifying Voters' Preferences
Redistricting Local Governments in England
National identity and regional development
Political geography
Bonuses and penalties in vote to seat conversion under single-member plurality electoral rules in a cross-national perspective
City–suburban electoral polarization in Great Britain, 1950–2001
Unequal and Unequally Distributed Votes
Electoral Disproportionality and Bias Under the Alternative Vote
Disproportionality and bias in US Presidential Elections
Electoral geography
Measuring bias
All connected? Geographies of race, death, wealth, votes and births
Seats, Votes, and the Spatial Organization of Elections
The political consequences of electoral laws
Electoral Distortion in New Zealand
Spatial Structure, Plurality Systems, and Electoral Bias
Ideal and Reality in Reapportionment
Tactical Voting in Great Britain in 1983 and 1987
Integrating and decomposing the sources of partisan bias
Winning the Local Vote
| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 0,61 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |