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The importance of geography to British electoral politics

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The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts discusses a great new book about the geography of British elections with its two authors, Jamie Furlong and Will Jennings.

Why do the Conservatives underperform on Merseyside yet overperform in Lincolnshire, and how much of electoral geography is really about individual campaigners?

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Show notes

  • Get The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales by Jamie Furlong and Will Jennings: Amazon, Bookshop, Waterstones. (Affiliate links.)
  • Get Putting Voters in Their Place: Geography and Elections in Great Britain by Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie: Amazon, Bookshop, Waterstones. (Affiliate links.)
  • My two previous podcasts discussing Brexitland: with Rob Ford and with Maria Sobolewska.
  • Jamie Furlong and Will Jennings on X/Twitter.
  • Theme tune by Hugo Lee.
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