Summary information
Study title
British Parliamentary By-Elections, 1950-1982
Creator
Stray, S. J., University of Essex, Department of Government
Study number / PID
2188 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-2188-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
Collection of voting results at by-elections. Each constituency where by-elections have occurred also has the voting results for that constituency at the preceding general election and, where possible, at the subsequent general election
Main Topics:
Variables
Votes received by Conservative, Labour, Liberal, Plaid Cymru and Scottish Nationalist candidates; total votes cast for all candidates; number of candidates, electorate, turnout for by-election and general elections before and after by-election.
SPSS set-up deck calculates Steed, Butler and Gudgen swings between by-election and preceeding general election and between by-election and subsequent general election.
No 1983 general election results are given for by-elections occuring between the 1979 General Election and December 1982.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
Great Britain
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Administrative units (geographical/political)
National
Electoral data
Universe
Parliamentary constituencies where by-elections occurred in Great Britain.
Sampling procedure
No sampling (total universe)
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1986
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
- Stray, S. (1986) British parliamentary by-elections, 1950-1982 : : an empirical investigation [dissertation]:University of Essex.