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Unemployment, the Poll Tax, and the British General Election of 1992

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  • R J Johnston

    (Vice-Chancellor's Office, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, England)

  • C J Pattie

    (Department of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England)

Abstract

The somewhat unexpected Conservative victory in the 1992 British general election was achieved because the party won seats, especially marginal seats in some southern regions, that it could have been expected to lose, given the impacts of its recent policies there. The initial analyses reported here show that the Conservatives were ‘punished’ by the electorate in constituencies with high unemployment and that the main opposition party, Labour, performed particularly well in areas with high community-charge levels. The ‘punishment’ was insufficiently hard to lead to Conservative losses on the scale needed for a Labour victory. The regional strength developed during the 1980s was not eroded substantially enough to yield a Tory defeat.

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  • R J Johnston & C J Pattie, 1992. "Unemployment, the Poll Tax, and the British General Election of 1992," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 10(4), pages 467-483, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:10:y:1992:i:4:p:467-483
    DOI: 10.1068/c100467
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    1. J G Gibson, 1992. "The Effects of Unemployment on Voting in British Elections: A New Specification of a Political-Economic Model of Constituency Voting," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 10(4), pages 451-465, December.
    2. Charles Pattie & Ron Johnston, 1998. "The Role of Regional Context in Voting: Evidence from the 1992 British General Election," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(3), pages 249-263.
    3. Charles Pattie & Daniel Dorling & Ron Johnston, 1995. "A Debt-owing Democracy: The Political Impact of Housing Market Recession at the British General Election of 1992," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 32(8), pages 1293-1315, August.
    4. R J Johnston & C J Pattie, 1992. "Is the Seesaw Tipping Back? The End of Thatcherism and Changing Voting Patterns in Great Britain 1979–92," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 24(10), pages 1491-1505, October.

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