Voting is of course a waste of time, in the strict statistical sense. The chances of anyone's individual vote deciding the election result in a constituency may be better than those of winning the Lottery, but not by much, and the benefits are less tangible. But we enter the Lottery and...
Tactical Voting and Electoral Pacts in the 2019 UK General Electiondoi:10.2139/ssrn.3545550The Brexit cleavage continued to define politics in the 2019 General Election. This posed a challenge for parties and voters on each side of the debate: how toSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Back Labour, Hain Tells Plaid and Lib-Dem Voters; Bid to Revive Tactical Voting Which Brought Previous Election Victories
"Tactical Voting and Party Constituency Campaigning at the 1992 General Election in England." British Journal of Political Science 26: 403-439.Fieldhouse, E., A., Johnston R.J. and Pattie C.,J., 1996, Tactical Voting and Party Constituency Campaigning at the 1992 General Election in England...
Election 2001: Tactical Voting - Gay Voters Voice Their Anger at Labour Policies ; Tactical VotingGAY RIGHTS campaigners have accused Labour of equivocating over whether the party would scrap Section 28, which bans local authorities from promoting homosexuality.Grice, Andrew...
Live on television, the returning officer for Folkestone and Hythe shuffles forward to the front of the stage where the count has taken place. To whoops and gasps he announces that the Liberal Democrat candidate has been elected as the constituency's new MP. Michael Howard, the personification...
After all, as compared with 2001 it is the Liberal Democrats who are up in the polls, not the Conservatives.Curtice, John
Defeated Tories: We Were Victims of Tactical Voting; Fourth Place Disaster in By-ElectionByline: LIAM CHRISTOPHERDaily Post (Liverpool, England)
Election 2001: Livingstone Risks Outcry by Backing Lib Dems ; Tactical VotingMarie Woolf Chief Political Correspondent
Election 2001 - Tactical Voting: Lewes Labour Party Members Defy Millbank by Switching Allegiance to Keep the Tory OutMarie Woolf Chief Political Correspondent