BiteBack Publishing

An invaluable reference and source book for politicians, public servants, historians, journalists, teachers and all those fascinated by the ebb and flow of electoral fortunes.

This unique and authoritative guide to more than 170 years of political history reflects the rapid and continuing change in the electoral landscape of the United Kingdom. It features a myriad of facts and figures on all 44 General Elections, six European Parliament elections and more than 3,700 parliamentary by-elections that have taken place in the United Kingdom since the Great Reform Act.

It also contains a considerable array of opinion poll data for Great Britain, further rounds of devolution elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, referenda and elections relating to elected mayors in London and a number of English local authorities, and the impact of the relaxation of the regulations on the issuing and casting of postal votes.