Summary information

Study title

British General Election Results, 1955-1992

Creator

Dorling, D., University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Department of Geography

Study number / PID

3061 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-3061-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

To visualize and analyse the evolution of the post-ward British Electoral System and to provide a basis for projecting plausible future election results on the record of past precedent.
Main Topics:

The vote in each seat for each party at each election; which seats remained roughly constant over time.

Elections

ALLIANCE (LIBERAL/SDP) (GREAT BRITAIN)BRITISH POLITICAL PARTIESCONSERVATIVE PARTY (GREAT BRITAIN)CONSTITUENCIES (ELSST)ELECTIONS (ELSST)ELECTORS (ELSST)LABOUR PARTY (GREAT BRITAIN)LIBERAL PARTY (GREAT BRITAIN)SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC AND LABOUR PARTY (NORTHERN IRELAND)PLAID CYMRUSCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTYLIBERAL DEMOCRATS (GREAT BRITAIN)

Data collection period

01/01/1991 - 01/01/1993

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Administrative units (geographical/political)

National

Electoral data

Universe

The vote and electorate in each parliamentary constituency for each of the main parties for each election between 1955 and 1992 in the United Kingdom.

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

both published and unpublished

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1993

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Dorling, D. (1991) The visualization of spatial social structure, [Thesis]: University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Tether, B., Dorling, D. and Cornford, J. (1995) 'Historical precedent and British electoral prospects', Electoral Studies, 123-142
Dorling, D. (1992) 'Visualizing people in time and space', Environment and Planning B, 613-637
Dorling, D. (1992) 'Stretching space and splicing time:: from cartographic animation to interactive visualization', Cartography and Geographic Information Systems , 215-227
Tether, B., Cornford, J. and Dorling, D. (1993) Historical precedent and British electoral prospects: Seminar Paper No. 63, [Working paper].: Department of Geography, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.