Britain Decides: The UK General Election 2005

Combining analysis of the party campaigns with a longer-term assessment of the handling of key issues, the volume provides a definitive guide to how the election was won and lost. Academic analyses of social, political, and territorial factors in how the UK voted are complemented by outsider views and constituency profiles.

Andrew Geddes is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. Jonathan Tonge is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at The University of Salford.

Acknowledgements

vii

List of abbreviations

viii

List of figures

x

List of tables

xi

Notes on contributors

xiii

Introduction

1

(5)

Andrew Geddes

Jonathan Tonge

The results: how Britain voted

6

(21)

David Denver

Constituency profile: Liverpool Riverside

26

(1)

Labour's campaign: neither forward nor back

27

(19)

Steven Fielding

Constituency profiles: Crosby; Bristol West

44

(2)

New leaders, same problems: the Conservatives

46

(24)

Philip Cowley

Jane Green

Constituency profile: Enfield Southgate

69

(1)

The Liberal Democrats: steady progress or failure to seize the moment?

70

(21)

Edward Fieldhouse

David Cutts

Constituency profiles: Manchester Withington; Southport

89

(2)

The candidate: Tony Wright

91

(7)

Tony Wright

The election in Scotland

98

(15)

James Mitchell

Constituency profile: Dundee East

112

(1)

Wales: the second post-devolution general election

113

(16)

Jonathan Bradbury

Constituency profile: Monmouth

128

(1)

Northern Ireland: meltdown of the moderates or the redistribution of moderation?

129

(21)

Jonathan Tonge

Constituency profile: Upper Bann

149

(1)

Feminising politics: sex and gender in the election

150

(20)

Sarah Childs

Constituency profiles: Blaenau Gwent; Guildford

168

(2)

Campaign finance

170

(18)

Justin Fisher

Constituency profile: Westmorland and Lonsdale

187

(1)

The Internet, e-democracy and the election: virtually irrelevant?

188

(20)

Stephen Ward

Constituency profile: Solihull

207

(1)

Election unspun? Mediation of the campaign

208

(17)

David Deacon

Dominic Wring

Constituency profile: Bolton West

224

(1)

It's not the economy stupid! The disappearance of the economy from the 2005 campaign

225

(16)

Martin J. Smith

Constituency profile: Milton Keynes North East

240

(1)

Delivery of public services

241

(20)

David Richards

Constituency profile: Putney

260

(1)

Foreign policy and the 'War on Terror'

261

(18)

Gavin Cameron

Constituency profiles: Bethnal Green and Bow; Sedgefield

277

(2)

Nationalism: immigration and European integration at the 2005 general election

279

(16)

Andrew Geddes

Constituency profile: Barking

294

(1)

Conclusion

295

(6)

Andrew Geddes

Jonathan Tonge

Index

301

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