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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The British Election Study, 2017: Face-to-Face Post-Election Survey (BES) continues the 2015 BES theme 'Voters in Context' (see SNs 7972 and 8202) and is designed to help our understanding of long-term political change, and the role of national and sub-national variations in the political and social context in shaping citizen' attitudes and behaviour. The survey tackles questions concerning key contemporary questions concerning political representation, accountability and engagement, and aims to help explain changes in party support in 2017. The study also includes an internet panel which follows a separate sample of voters since 2014, and continues forward into the next electoral cycle. The face-to-face survey is an address-based random probability sample of eligible voters living in 468 wards in 234 Parliamentary Constituencies in England, Scotland, and Wales. The face-to-face survey was completed by 2,194 people. The fieldwork for the survey was conducted by GfK between 26 June 2017 and 1 October 2017 and achieved an overall response rate of 46.2%. The face-to-face dataset also includes a self-completion Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) module that was answered by 984 respondents. Full details of the methodology and fieldwork are available in the technical report that accompanies the data release and details of the questionnaire can be found in the codebook. For more information see the British Election Study website. The BES series constitutes the longest academic series of nationally representative probability sample surveys in the country. Its broad aim is to explore the changing determinants of electoral behaviour in contemporary Britain. The surveys have taken place immediately after every general election since 1964. Since the election series was originated in 1963 by David Butler and Donald Stokes under the name of Political Change in Britain,...