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Size of Place and Local Labour Strength

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

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In a recent examination of size of place as a factor affecting electoral behaviour, Bealey and Dyer came to the ‘general conclusion’ that ‘the Labour vote in Britain is proportionately stronger in those constituencies which are part of large places’. Is such a relationship between size of place and Labour strength displayed in local elections?

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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References

1 Bealey, F. and Dyer, M., ‘Size of Place and the Labour Vote in Britain, 1918–1966’, Western Political Quarterly, XXIV (1971), 84113.Google Scholar

2 See Stanyer, J., ‘Social and Rational Models of Man: Alternative Approaches to the Study of Local Elections’, The Advancement of Science, XXVI (1970), 399407Google Scholar, and Grant, W. P., ‘Attitudes Towards Local Government in a Small Resort Town’, South-Western Review of Public Administration, X (1971), 34–9.Google Scholar

3 Bealey, and Dyer, , ‘Size of Place and Labour Vote’, pp. 102–3.Google Scholar