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This data collection contains the replication data for "Victorian Voting: The Origins of Party Orientation and Class Alignment". The collection includes information on voters' social class and vote choices in three English constituencies (Ashford, Guildford, and Sandwich) over the years 1832-1868. The research project used the voter-level data to reassess the development of a party-centred electorate in the United Kingdom. It shows that (i) the electorate was party-centred by the time of the extension of the franchise in 1867; (ii) a decline in candidate-centred voting is largely attributable to changes in the behaviour of the working class; and (iii) the enfranchised working class aligned with the Liberal left.

Vote choices and social class in elections in the Victorian period.