Abstract
From 1955 to 1970 there was no general redistribution of constituency boundaries. So for the five elections in that period the 1966 Census gives a guide to the social characteristics of constituencies. Obviously it is likely to be less accurate for 1955 than 1966, but there are advantages as well as disadvantages in using a single census as a consistent measure of social patterns.
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W. L. Miller and M. Mackie, The Electoral Cycle and the Asymmetry of Government and Opposition Popularity: An Alternative Model of the Relationship between Economic Conditions and Political Popularity, Pol. Stud., v. 21, 1973, pp. 263–279.
Butler and Stokes, p. 269.
Butler and Stokes, p. 203.
The defeat of the 1964 Labour Government’s Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon-Walker, at Smethwick in 1964 was widely attributed to a campaign on immigration in this midlands constituency. In 1966 New Commonwealth immigrants made up less than 7% of the Smethwick population. The constituency was distinguished as much by the local political campaign as by the level of immigration. See A. W. Singham, Immigration and the election, pp. 360–368 in D. E. Butler and A. King, The British General Election of 1964, Macmillan: London, 1965
J. Byrne, Smethwick, pp. 249–253 in D. E. Butler and A. King, The British General Election of 1966, Macmillan: London, 1966.
Butler and Stokes, pp. 414–415.
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Miller, W.L. (1977). Variations and Trends in Post-War Voting Patterns. In: Electoral Dynamics in Britain since 1918. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15851-5_3
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