“If You've Got Friends and Neighbours”: Constituency Voting Patterns for the UK Labour Party Leader in 2010

Ron  Johnston; Charles Pattie; Hugh Pemberton; Mark Wickham-Jones

doi:10.1080/17457289.2015.1099537

“If You've Got Friends and Neighbours”: Constituency Voting Patterns for the UK Labour Party Leader in 2010

Ron Johnston^*, Charles Pattie, Hugh Pemberton, Mark Wickham-Jones

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Most attention in British electoral studies has been paid to the pattern of voting for parties, with relatively little to that for individual candidates. In intra-party elections, however, candidates may perform better in some areas than others, illustrating V. O. Key's well-known “friends and neighbours” effect. This paper explores whether that was so at the election for the leader of the UK Labour party in 2010, expecting each of the five candidates to perform better in their own constituency and its environs and also with those constituency parties whose MPs supported their candidature. The results are in line with the expectations, especially for one of the candidates who ran an explicitly geographical campaign.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	58-77
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties
Volume	26
Issue number	1
Early online date	20 Nov 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2015.1099537
Publication status	Published - 2 Jan 2016

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