Elections in Britain

Dick Leonard & Roger Mortimore

Fifth Edition, ISBN 1-4039-4256-0

In many fundamentals, British elections have hardly changed in a century. Yet the details -- both legal regulations and the behaviour of parties, candidates and voters -- are constantly changing, perhaps never faster than in the last few years. This fully revised new edition of the standard text on British elections addresses the continuities but also documents recent changes in law and practice, new trends in voting (and non-voting) behaviour, and adds comprehensive tables of results and statistics.

Reviews of the previous edition:

"...the first sighting of Dick Leonards Elections in Britain -- A Voter's Guide is a sure-fire sign that the UK general election season has finally arrived."

"the nuts and bolts of the general election"

"Describes in useful detail how the British electoral system works."

"indispensable reading for all ...a host of facts, figures and anecdotes which turn the sometimes dry and dusty material of the psephologist into fascinating reading..."

Dick Leonard is a political journalist and former Labour MP. Previously Assistant Editor of The Economist, he has also worked for the BBC and The Observer. He is the author, or co-author of some 20 books, including A Century of Premiers, The Pro-European Reader, Crosland and New Labour and The Economist Guide to the European Union.

Roger Mortimore has worked for MORI since 1993 as Political Analyst and Senior Political Assistant to the Chairman, Sir Robert Worcester, concentrating on political and constitutional research as well as on opinion polling methodology. He was extensively involved with MORI's election opinion polling in 1997, in particular with the weekly surveys for The Times and with the ITN Exit poll. He is also responsible for editing British Public Opinion newsletter.