A Test of the Importance of Tactical Voting: Great Britain, 1987

John Galbraith and Nicol C. Rae

British Journal of Political Science, 1989, vol. 19, issue 1, 126-136

Abstract: The issue of ‘tactical voting’ aroused a great deal of interest during the 1987 United Kingdom general election campaign. This Note considers the nature and importance of tactical voting in Britain and makes an attempt to detect its presence empirically using electoral data.

Date: 1989
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