The Impact of By-elections on General Elections: England, 1950–87
British Journal of Political SciencePublished 1 January 1991
Graham Upton
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Abstract
In his introduction to a definitive collection of articles on British by-elections, David Butler observed that by-elections ‘may offer some guide to the public mood; but who now would dare to give a figure for the likely difference between a by-election today and what would happen in an immediate general election?’
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