What Does The Election Tell Us About Consumers?
The British General Election of 2001 surprised few in its outcome, but almost everybody was surprised by the scale of the fall in turnout. While this is primarily of concern to those in the political world, it may also have wider lessons for companies in general as case study in apparent failure in marketing. In a paper delivered at the Research Show on 2 October 2001, Jessica Elgood and Roger Mortimore of MORI's Political Research team drew on a wide range of polling data surrounding the election to draw lessons from the election. Most of the data is set out, and discussed in detail, in Sir Robert Worcester and Roger Mortimore's newly published book on the election, Explaining Labour's Second Landslide (Politico's Publishing, 2001).
