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The announcement by the Prime Minister of an impending general election precipitates a flurry of activity in constituency and local party branches throughout the country. Emergency meetings are hastily convened to put the local party machines on a ‘wartime footing’ and to make arrangements for the formal adoption of Parliamentary candidates.
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© 1996 Dick Leonard
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Leonard, D. (1996). The Campaign in the Constituencies. In: Elections in Britain Today. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25112-4_8
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