A Test of the Importance of Tactical Voting: Great Britain, 1987
- 27 January 1989
- journal article
- other
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Political Science
- Vol. 19 (1) , 126-136
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123400005366
Abstract
The issue of ‘tactical voting’ aroused a great deal of interest during the 1987 United Kingdom general election campaign. This Note considers the nature and importance of tactical voting in Britain and makes an attempt to detect its presence empirically using electoral data.Keywords
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