Equalising votes but enabling bias: The electoral impact of the 1977 and 1999 ward boundary reviews in London

Urban Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1367-1393

  Rallings, Colin ^a   Johnston, Ron ^b   Thrasher, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; POLITICAL CHANGE; TERRITORIAL DELIMITATION; URBAN POLITICS; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 3042825086     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098042000214842     Document Type: Article

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