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Here are some useful key starting points for those researching UK Elections.
Try our blog for the full links to key sites for current and historic resources.
(BFI player has a
never mind the ballots election collection with great films from the early 20th Century onwards
including the
great clangers - vote for Froglet from 1974 is your candidate offering free soup for all)
Newspapers
Loughborough University Media analysis weekly updates of coverage
Social Media
Polls
summary of the most recent polls
Historical resources
Party election manifestos 1945 onwards
British Library web archives key sites
2005,
2010,
2015
British election study 1964-2010 . accounts of voting intentions from electorate surveys
Uk data archive (subscribers) has many key qualitative and qunatitative datasets
Field, W. (2007). British Electoral Data, 1885-1949. [data collection]. UK Data Service. SN: 5673,
http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-5673-1
Curtice, J.K., Steed, M. UK General Election Results, 1955-1970 and Associated Information. [data collection]. UK Data Service. SN: 1799,
http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-1799-1
Lawrence, J., Good, K. (2005). Electing John Bull: the Changing Face of British Elections, 1895-1935. [data collection]. UK Data Service. SN: 5078,
http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-5078-1
Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited. Gallup General Election Survey, June 1970. [data collection]. UK Data Service. SN: 1353,
http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-1353-1
Images/ films
British Cartoon archive has historic images
is
your candidate a bounder ?
what to do if the election is wet!
BFI player has a
never mind the ballots election collection with great films from the early 20th Century onwards
including the
great clangers - vote for Froglet from 1974 is your candidate offering free soup for all
Heather Dawson