… So what explains the remarkable scale of the second Labour landslide? … Especially since
this was the British Labour Party—… this volume, the outcome of the election is open to multiple …

Migration is at the heart of the contemporary EU. This book addresses the two key questions
that underpin EU responses to migration policy. Firstly, the efforts to control immigration and …

… Labour Party, a judgment that the 2001 election did little more than confirm. After four years
in power, Labour had … was an apathetic landslide, a standstill election that endorsed Labour’s …

… Conservatives, giving Labour a benefit of 48 seats. At the 1997 general election, therefore,
Labour was the beneficiary from all but one of these bias components—the minor-party voting …

… the appropriate adjective to describe the scale of the Labour victory, whether a ‘landslide’,
a ‘political earthquake’ or a ‘sea change in British politics’. The government lost a quarter of its …

… British general elections. We review that debate in the case of the 1997 British general election,
… constituency vote share for Labour, the Liberal Democrats, and the Conservatives in that …

… After years in the political wilderness, Labour won the 1997 general election by a landslide
majority of seats. Its winning share of the vote, while impressive by the standards of the …

… published opinion poll indicated that Labour would win the election (see Tables 4.3 and 4.4
… landslide victory. All but two of the polls published during the campaign pointed to a Labour …

… The following sections analyse the outcome of the 1997 general election in Great Britain,
with special reference to change between 1992 and 1997, in the context of the above three-…

… of a landslide British elections have always been strongly geographical. The two major parties'
support is concentrated in particular regions, Labour in … Labour was pushed back into its …