Constituency Characteristics, Individual Characteristics and Tactical Voting in the 1987 British General Election

Richard G. Niemi, Guy Written and Mark N. Franklin

British Journal of Political Science, 1992, vol. 22, issue 2, 229-240

Abstract: In Britain in recent years the study of tactical voting has become something of a growth industry. Unresolved, however, is a key question: the number of tactical voters. Despite an election-night estimate of 17 per cent, a variety of later analysts have estimated that little more than one in twenty voters behaved tactically in 1987, a surprisingly low figure in the light of the efforts of various groups to encourage tactical voting in order to avoid fragmentation of the anti-Thatcher vote. Most recently, Heath, Curtice and Jowell, in their analysis of the British Election Study survey, report that ‘just 6.5% of major party voters indicated in their replies a tactical motivation for their vote’.

Date: 1992
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