Britain Votes: The 2024 General Election
Will be published approx. on 17. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-19-790341-4 (ISBN)
Description
Britain Votes: The 2024 General Election brings together a team of distinguished academic experts to examine every facet of a record-breaking election. This was a contest that produced the highest swing in the post-war era, delivering a Labour landslide, and reducing the Conservatives to their lowest ever level of parliamentary representation. This volume helps explain how and why this remarkable electoral turnaround was achieved. The contributions analyse the election results in detail and evaluate the campaigns and electoral performance of all the main parties. There is in-depth assessment of the electoral contests in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Every aspect of the campaign is scrutinized, from party funding to media coverage and the parties' strategies for digital engagement. The volume also highlights a number of critical challenges to the electoral process in the UK and also asks what the outcome in 2024 might suggest for the next election.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 80 mm
Weight
495 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-790341-4 (9780197903414)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors and editors
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Introduction
- Introduction: A record-breaking election
- The Results and Election Context
- The results: How Britain voted in 2024
- The electoral system: All a question of geography
- Political Parties
- 'Come, Armageddon, come': The Conservatives
- The Labour Party under Keir Starmer: Plotting the route to a shallow landslide
- Yellow fever returns: The 2024 Liberal Democrat campaign
- Voices from the edge make breakthrough in British politics: The Greens, Reform UK, and independents
- Territorial Dimensions
- Shifting sands: Sources of voter volatility in the 2024 UK General Election in Scotland
- The 2024 UK General Election in Wales
- Northern Ireland: Sinn Féin completes a hat-trick
- Campaign Themes
- Party finance: Labour exploits its advantage
- The first TikTok election? Social media, generative AI, and data-driven campaigning in the 2024 UK General Election
- There may be trouble ahead: Women's representation, voters, and issues in the 2024 election campaign
- Ethnic minority voters and the 2024 General Election
- Tax, trip-ups, and transgressions: Reporting the 2024 UK General Election
- Breweries, bricklaying, and bungee jumping: Understanding the 2024 campaign trail
- An inexperienced parliament
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: A time to take stock
- Contributors and editors
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Introduction
- Introduction: A record-breaking election
- The Results and Election Context
- The results: How Britain voted in 2024
- The electoral system: All a question of geography
- Political Parties
- 'Come, Armageddon, come': The Conservatives
- The Labour Party under Keir Starmer: Plotting the route to a shallow landslide
- Yellow fever returns: The 2024 Liberal Democrat campaign
- Voices from the edge make breakthrough in British politics: The Greens, Reform UK, and independents
- Territorial Dimensions
- Shifting sands: Sources of voter volatility in the 2024 UK General Election in Scotland
- The 2024 UK General Election in Wales
- Northern Ireland: Sinn Féin completes a hat-trick
- Campaign Themes
- Party finance: Labour exploits its advantage
- The first TikTok election? Social media, generative AI, and data-driven campaigning in the 2024 UK General Election
- There may be trouble ahead: Women's representation, voters, and issues in the 2024 election campaign
- Ethnic minority voters and the 2024 General Election
- Tax, trip-ups, and transgressions: Reporting the 2024 UK General Election
- Breweries, bricklaying, and bungee jumping: Understanding the 2024 campaign trail
- An inexperienced parliament
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: A time to take stock