Mediating the Grey Vote: The UK General Election Campaigns of 2005 and 2010

Going Grey ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 127-158
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals For Wales, Do Not See England? An Analysis of the 2017 General Election

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura McAllister ◽  
Roger Awan-Scully
Keyword(s):  
Political Party ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
General Election ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Electoral Outcomes ◽  
Voter Choice ◽  
Stark Contrast ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Regional Analyses

Abstract This article analyses the 2017 UK General Election from the perspective of the campaign and results in Wales, a nation which had the most interesting election campaign of all the different nations. The election saw a stark contrast between the way the two principal UK-wide parties fought their campaigns and how the campaign impacted on results. Drawing on data from a post-election survey conducted in June 2017, we consider factors that shape voter choice, which affected the outcome of the election in Wales. We argue that the election internalised and reflected a new pattern of party politics that is likely to stimulate differential election outcomes across the UK; this requires a different approach to understanding election campaigns, one that differentiates between the nations and how every political party operates in each territory. This will help distinguish different political and electoral fault lines, as well as constructing a more granular analysis of the campaign’s impact on electoral outcomes. We conclude first that, to better and more comprehensively explain UK-wide elections, there is a need to provide distinctive national and regional analyses, and secondly, it is mistaken to assume that the same electoral patterns will always exist in Wales as in England.

scholarly journals Defeat of the People's Army? The 2015 British general election and the UK Independence Party (UKIP)

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 70-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cutts ◽  
Matthew Goodwin ◽  
Caitlin Milazzo
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
The Uk

In Focus: Brexit and the UK General Election

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin D. Hennig
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Changes in political trust in Britain during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: integrated public opinion evidence and implications

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Davies ◽  
Fanny Lalot ◽  
Linus Peitz ◽  
Maria S. Heering ◽  
Hilal Ozkececi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
General Election ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Gradual Decline ◽  
The Uk

AbstractIn this paper, we document changes in political trust in the UK throughout 2020 so as to consider wider implications for the ongoing handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analysed data from 18 survey organisations with measures on political trust (general, leadership, and COVID-19-related) spanning the period December 2019–October 2020. We examined the percentage of trust and distrust across time, identifying where significant changes coincide with national events. Levels of political trust were low following the 2019 UK General Election. They rose at the onset of UK lockdown imposed in March 2020 but showed persistent gradual decline throughout the remainder of the year, falling to pre-COVID levels by October 2020. Inability to sustain the elevated political trust achieved at the onset of the pandemic is likely to have made the management of public confidence and behaviour increasingly challenging, pointing to the need for strategies to sustain trust levels when handling future crises.

scholarly journals Financing Political Parties in France, Germany and The United Kingdom

2016 ◽  
pp. 91-110
Author(s):  
Jan Misiuna
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Low Level ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk

The paper compares the systems of financing political parties in France, Germany and the UK. The analysis concentrates on effectiveness of collecting contributions, dependency on large donors for providing funds for financing election campaigns and daily operation of political parties, and the level of transparency of finances of political parties. The final conclusion is that only introducing limits on expenditures on election campaigns allows to keep the costs of election campaigns and political parties at a low level, while mandatory common accounting standards and public access to financial information is necessary to preserve transparency of finances of political parties.

scholarly journals The general election in the UK, May 2005

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 814-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Fisher
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
The Uk

Social Media in the UK Election Campaigns 2008-2014

2015 ◽  
pp. 325-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren G. Lilleker ◽  
Nigel Jackson ◽  
Karolina Koc-Michalska
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
The Uk

Accession, Renegotiation, Referendum, 1973–1975

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-137
Author(s):  
Stephen Wall
Keyword(s):  
Labour Party ◽  
General Election ◽  
First Year ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
The Press ◽  
Oil Crisis ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Year Of Europe

The first year of Britain’s EEC membership did not run smoothly. The Americans unilaterally declared it ‘the Year of Europe’. Heath was accused by Kissinger of destroying the special relationship. The Arab–Israeli war caused an oil crisis in which the UK, relatively unscathed, did not help her partners. Early in 1974, Heath lost a General Election and was replaced by Wilson. Wilson and Foreign Secretary Callaghan faced a divided Cabinet and Labour Party as they set about renegotiating the terms of Britain’s EEC membership. The improvements they secured, after a second General Election in October 1974, were slight but enough to get the deal through the Cabinet. Labour Ministers campaigned in the referendum on opposite sides, but support for remaining from all the main Party leaders and the Press helped secure a significant majority for staying.

Good Result or Bad Deal?

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-108
Author(s):  
Stephen Wall
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
General Election ◽  
Party Voting ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Enoch Powell

Poised to begin negotiations for EEC accession, Prime Minister Wilson called a snap general election and lost to Edward Heath’s Conservative Party. Heath was a life-long pro-European but there were opponents of EEC entry, led by the disgraced rebel, Enoch Powell, within Tory ranks. The Conservatives adopted the Labour government’s accession strategy. But, out of government, the Labour Party turned against membership. Pro-EEC Labour rebels, led by former Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins, voted with Heath to secure parliamentary approval for accession. To prevent the Labour Party voting to take the UK out of the EEC, Wilson promised that he would renegotiate the terms agreed by Heath and put them to the electorate. The EEC countries, especially France, struck a hard deal with the UK and Heath was obliged to accept disadvantageous terms for UK accession.

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