Titlebook: Elections in Britain Today; A Guide for Voters a Dick Leonard Book 1991Latest edition Dick Leonard 1991 campaign.constituency.election.elec

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Polling Day,arties swings decisively back to the constituencies. The morning papers carry final appeals to vote for one or other of the parties, but otherwise an uneasy quiet descends upon the national scene. The final shots have been fired on radio and television, the party headquarters have done their best or their worst, all now depends on the voter.

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How People Vote,nts — during election campaigns, and to a lesser degree at other times. Earlier chapters of this book have sought to describe the various ways in which the parties seek to influence public opinion. This chapter will attempt to discern whether all this activity makes much difference to the way that people vote.

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,Political Parties — Local,hich the voter is likely to come into contact. Both the Conservative and Labour Parties have branches in each of the 633 constituencies in Great Britain, as have the Liberal Democrats in all but a few of them. None of the main British parties now has any significant presence in Northern Ireland.

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Candidates,ly to voters — that is, to be a British or Commonwealth subject or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, and to have reached the age of 21. This has remained the minimum age for candidates, even though the voting age was reduced to 18 in 1969. It is not even necessary to be on the election register.

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The National Campaign,party leaders and other prominent personalities, the party headquarters played little direct part in the campaign. The newspapers were full of election news, but they were read only by a minority, and a far greater readership was claimed by regional and local papers than is the case today.

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Polling Day,arties swings decisively back to the constituencies. The morning papers carry final appeals to vote for one or other of the parties, but otherwise an uneasy quiet descends upon the national scene. The final shots have been fired on radio and television, the party headquarters have done their best or

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