A Dividing Nation? An Initial Exploration of the Changing Electoral Geography of Great Britain, 1979–1987

1 August 1987

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

Vol. 19 (8) , 1001-1013
https://doi.org/10.1068/a191001

Abstract

Commentators have suggested an increased spatial polarisation in voting behaviour within Great Britain over recent decades. Analyses designed to evaluate this suggestion for the period 1979–87 are reported. Entropy-maximising procedures were used to produce estimates of voting by occupational class at the 1979, 1983, and 1987 general elections; they show very clear patterns of increased polarisation over the period.

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