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Community Cohesion and Voter Turnout in English Parliamentary Constituencies

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  • Eagles, Munroe
  • Erfle, Stephen

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Voting turnout varies both over time and across space. In Britain there has been a secular trend in the postwar period for decreasing turnout at parliamentary elections (from a high of 84.1 per cent in 1950 to 75.4 percent in 1987, with a low point of 71.8 per cent in 1970). Such temporal variations in turnout are dwarfed in scale, however, by differences in turnout across constituencies at the same election. In the 1970 election, for example, turnout ranged from a low of 44.9 per cent in Stepney to 85.3 per cent in Cornwall North. Though diminished slightly, variation in constituency turnout rates remained significant in the June 1983 election (from a low of 51.8 percent in City of London and Westminster South to a high of 81.1 percent in Leicestershire NW).

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  • Eagles, Munroe & Erfle, Stephen, 1989. "Community Cohesion and Voter Turnout in English Parliamentary Constituencies," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 19(1), pages 115-125, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:19:y:1989:i:01:p:115-125_00
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    1. Carole Uhlaner, 1989. "“Relational goods” and participation: Incorporating sociability into a theory of rational action," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 62(3), pages 253-285, September.
    2. Hairol Anuar Mak Din & Nor Azlili Hassan, 2017. "Voting Identification through Value Approach: A Case Study on Malay Young Voters," International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, vol. 7(11), pages 1434-1439, November.
    3. Wendy K. Tam Cho & James G. Gimpel, 2010. "Rough Terrain: Spatial Variation in Campaign Contributing and Volunteerism," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 54(1), pages 74-89, January.
    4. Won-Taek Kang, 2004. "Protest Voting and Abstention Under Plurality Rule Elections," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 16(1), pages 79-102, January.

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