Scotland’s Electoral Geography Differed from the Rest of Britain’s in 2017 (and 2015) – Exploring its Contours

Ron Johnston; Kelvyn Jones; David Manley; Charles Pattie; Todd Hartman

doi:10.1080/14702541.2017.1409362

Scotland’s Electoral Geography Differed from the Rest of Britain’s in 2017 (and 2015) – Exploring its Contours

Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones, David Manley, Charles Pattie, Todd Hartman

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

9 Citations (Scopus)

240 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

The rapid expansion in support for the Scottish National Party between the 2010 and 2015 general elections substantially changed the country’s electoral geography, as again did its relative decline at the next election in 2017. At that last contest, however, the SNP won many seats with fewer than 40 per cent of the votes cast, a situation very different from that in the rest of Great Britain. That difference – which had a considerable impact on the formation of a government in June
2017 – came about because of the nature of the competition in individual seats.

Original language	English
Journal	Scottish Geographical Journal
Early online date	13 Dec 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2017.1409362
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 13 Dec 2017

Keywords

general election
Electoral geography
PARTY COMPETITION
SCOTLAND

Access to Document

10.1080/14702541.2017.1409362Licence: Other

Full-text PDF (accepted author manuscript)
This is the accepted author manuscript (AAM). The final published version (version of record) is available online via Taylor & Francis at https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2017.1409362 . Please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher.
Accepted author manuscript, 1.05 MBLicence: Other

Handle.net

Persistent link

Cite this

@article{3282d3ef2776453bae201057d0071f71,

title = "Scotland{\textquoteright}s Electoral Geography Differed from the Rest of Britain{\textquoteright}s in 2017 (and 2015) – Exploring its Contours",

abstract = "The rapid expansion in support for the Scottish National Party between the 2010 and 2015 general elections substantially changed the country{\textquoteright}s electoral geography, as again did its relative decline at the next election in 2017. At that last contest, however, the SNP won many seats with fewer than 40 per cent of the votes cast, a situation very different from that in the rest of Great Britain. That difference – which had a considerable impact on the formation of a government in June2017 – came about because of the nature of the competition in individual seats. ",

keywords = "general election, Electoral geography, PARTY COMPETITION , SCOTLAND",

author = "Ron Johnston and Kelvyn Jones and David Manley and Charles Pattie and Todd Hartman",

year = "2017",

month = dec,

day = "13",

doi = "10.1080/14702541.2017.1409362",

language = "English",

journal = "Scottish Geographical Journal",

issn = "1470-2541",

publisher = "Taylor & Francis Group",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Scotland’s Electoral Geography Differed from the Rest of Britain’s in 2017 (and 2015) – Exploring its Contours

AU - Johnston, Ron

AU - Jones, Kelvyn

AU - Manley, David

AU - Pattie, Charles

AU - Hartman, Todd

PY - 2017/12/13

Y1 - 2017/12/13

N2 - The rapid expansion in support for the Scottish National Party between the 2010 and 2015 general elections substantially changed the country’s electoral geography, as again did its relative decline at the next election in 2017. At that last contest, however, the SNP won many seats with fewer than 40 per cent of the votes cast, a situation very different from that in the rest of Great Britain. That difference – which had a considerable impact on the formation of a government in June2017 – came about because of the nature of the competition in individual seats.

AB - The rapid expansion in support for the Scottish National Party between the 2010 and 2015 general elections substantially changed the country’s electoral geography, as again did its relative decline at the next election in 2017. At that last contest, however, the SNP won many seats with fewer than 40 per cent of the votes cast, a situation very different from that in the rest of Great Britain. That difference – which had a considerable impact on the formation of a government in June2017 – came about because of the nature of the competition in individual seats.

KW - general election

KW - Electoral geography

KW - PARTY COMPETITION

KW - SCOTLAND

U2 - 10.1080/14702541.2017.1409362

DO - 10.1080/14702541.2017.1409362

M3 - Article (Academic Journal)

SN - 1470-2541

JO - Scottish Geographical Journal

JF - Scottish Geographical Journal

ER -

Scotland’s Electoral Geography Differed from the Rest of Britain’s in 2017 (and 2015) – Exploring its Contours

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Handle.net

Fingerprint

Cite this