Fragmented and Dealigned: The 2024 British General Election and the Rise of Place‐Based Politics.
While the outcome of the 2024 British general election signalled a resounding repudiation of the incumbent government—returning a 231‐seat swing from the Conservatives to Labour—it did not radically overturn the geography of electoral outcomes in England and Wales. Indeed, demographic predictors of...
| Publicado en: | Political Quarterly Vol. 96; no. 1; pp. 13 - 26 |
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