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Summary information

Study title

British General Election Results, October 1974 and May 1979

Creator

Payne, C., University of Oxford, Nuffield College
Butler, D., University of Oxford, Nuffield College

Study number / PID

1601 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-1601-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Main Topics:

Variables
Votes for major parties (Conservative, Labour, Liberal, Plaid Cymru, Scottish National Party) and other parties (aggregated); identification of constituencies (name and press association number) and regional code constituency electorates.

Topics

Elections

Keywords

CONSERVATIVE PARTY (GREAT BRITAIN)CONSTITUENCIESELECTIONSLABOUR PARTY (GREAT BRITAIN)LIBERAL PARTY (GREAT BRITAIN)PLAID CYMRUSCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTYVOTING

Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

Great Britain

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study
data covers two elections

Analysis unit

Administrative units (geographical/political)
National
Electoral data

Universe

The British General Elections of October 1974 and May 1979

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1981

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.

Related publications

  • Butler, D. and Kavanagh, D. (1980) The British General Election of 1979, London: Macmillan.
  • Kavanagh, D. and Butler, D. (1975) The British General Election of October 1974, London: Macmillan.