Friday 28 June from 15:00 to 16:00 on Microsoft Teams
Jamie Furlong and Will Jennings will present findings from their new book and discuss implications for the electoral geography of GE2024. The presentation will be followed by 25 minutes of questions time.
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The 2019 British general election saw a dramatic redrawing of the electoral map, with the Labour Party losing seats to the Conservatives in former heartlands in the North of England and Midlands. Yet this had been a long-term shift, with the opposite trend occurring in major cities and university towns, where Labour’s support has been increasing. What has driven these changes in electoral geography? Why do they matter? What might they mean for the British general election of 2024?
This book offers a definitive account of the changing electoral geography of England and Wales over the past half century. Jamie Furlong and Will Jennings argue that long-term trends in social and economic structure have significantly altered the spatial distribution of voters and, combined with changes in the parties’ appeal to those voters, have led to a gradual, though recently accelerating, realignment of the geographical basis of electoral competition.