How many candidates were forced to forfeit their deposits in 1970?
Which constituency holds the record for the highest number of spoilt ballot papers?
What was the weather like on polling day in 1924?
Who was the youngest woman to be elected to the House of Commons?
How many votes did the BNP receive in the 1997 election?
In this treasure trove of historical political facts and figures, election experts Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher provide the answers.
This is 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 180 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 forty-five general elections, seven 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 both British and Scottish elections, for further rounds of devolution elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and for referenda and elections relating to elected mayors in London and a number of English local authorities.
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