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Official and Reported Turnout in the British General Election of 1987
Abstract
This Note looks afresh at the question of turnout in British general elections, using data gathered in the 1987 British General Election Study, together with information on the electoral behaviour of the sample, collected independently of the BGES survey. The official rate of turnout for Great Britain in 1987 (the number of votes cast over the number of entries on the electoral register) was around 75 per cent; that is to say, according to official figures, about one in four registered electors did not vote. In common with earlier surveys, the BGES indicates a much higher turnout figure than the official one; 86 per cent of respondents to the survey reported that they had voted.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Swaddle, K., & Heath, A.
- Venue
- British Journal of Political Science
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1989-10
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 537-551
- ISSN
- 0007-1234 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-2112
- OpenAlex
- W2099995880
- Cited by
- 223
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 27.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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