Local Electoral Participation in Britain

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 700-715+ii+vi

  Rallings, Colin ^a   Thrasher, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 10744230401     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsg111     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. All these figures exclude those local authorities which conducted their 2002 local elections using all postal voting.
2. See D. Denver, Elections and Voters in Britain, Palgrave, 2003, c. 2.
3. Compare this analysis with that of the 2001 general election in P. Whiteley, H. Clarke, D. Sanders and M. Stewart, 'Turnout' in P. Norris (ed.), Britain Votes 2001, Oxford University Press, 2001.
4. W. Miller, Irrelevant Elections?, Oxford University Press, 1988.
5. N. Chivite-Matrhews and J. Teal, 1998 British Social Attitudes Survey: Secondary Analysis of the Local Government Module, Local and Regional Government Research Unit, DETR, 2000.
6. J. Curtice, The Crisis of Local Democracy in Britain, Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST) Working Paper 77, 1999.
7. See J. Currice, B. Seyd and K. Thomson, Devolution to the Centre: Lessons from London's First Mayoral Election, Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST) Working Paper 90,2001.
8. Almost all surveys discover more people claiming to have voted than actually did so. In local election research the gap between reported and actual turnout is often of the order of 20 percentage points.
9. P. Whiteley, H. Clarke, D. Sanders and M. Stewart, '(Not) at the Polls: Electoral Turnout and Political Choice in Contemporary Britain', paper presented at ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Turin, March 2002.
10. C. Railings and M. Thrasher, Elections: The 21st Century Model, Local Government Association, 2000.
11. Electoral Commission, Modernising Elections, 2002.