Voting Patterns, Party Spending and Space in England and Wales

David Cutts and Don Webber
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David Cutts: University of Manchester

No 709, Working Papers from Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol

Abstract: There is a growing body of literature which suggests that voting patterns are not independent from space yet few empirical investigations exist which take explicit account of space. This article examines the determinants of voting patterns across constituencies in England and Wales using spatial econometric methods. The results suggest that while socioeconomic factors are key determinants of party vote shares in constituencies, there is strong spatial autocorrelation in voting patterns. We find that each major political party is influenced by space to different extents with the Liberal Democrats visibly exploiting spatial autocorrelation to increase their vote shares.

Keywords: 2005 General Election, voting patterns, political party spending; spatial regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 R59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 52 pages
Date: 2007-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-pol and nep-ure
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