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British By-Elections Between the Wars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

James K. Pollock
James K. Pollock
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University of Michigan
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The electoral system of Britain provides students of representative government and observers of voting behavior with a large and valuable field of investigation. The Mother of Parliaments has been elected on a democratic basis since 1918, and the constituency pattern which was rearranged after the first World War has continued down to the present time. The party picture too, although constantly changing, has not been altered fundamentally during the period. We have therefore an interesting and satisfactory span of time between the two world wars in which to examine the various aspects of British electoral institutions and behavior.

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Foreign Government and Politics
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American Political Science Review , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , June 1941 , pp. 519 - 528
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1941

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References

1 See, for instance, 132 Parl. Debs., 4th series, cols. 1015 ff.; and ibid., 141, cols. 160 ff., 181 ff.

2 Fabian Tract, No. 211, p. 12. See also John H. Humphreys, P. R. pamphlet No. 83.

3 The following electoral truce on parliamentary by-elections was signed in September, 1939, by the three chief party whips: “We jointly agree, as representing the Conservative, Labour, and Liberal parties, as follows: (a) Not to nominate candidates for parliamentary vacancies that now exist, or may occur, against the candidate nominated by the party holding the seat at the time of the vacancy occurring. (b) The agreement shall hold good during the War or until determined on notice given by any one of the three parties signatories hereto.” The Labour Party, Thirty-Ninth Annual Report, p. 19.

4 A small sample for any given year may lead to sound conclusions, but it is always better, although much more laborious, to present complete figures.

5 J. C. Sparks, in this Review, Vol. 34, p. 103.

6 132 Parl. Deb., 4th series, col. 1016.

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