Nearly 200 people attended the Westminster launch of 'Britain Votes 2017', a new book on the detailed analysis of a dramatic general election.
The book has been produced by two members of the Politics Department; Jon Tonge and Stuart Wilks-Heeg, along with Cristina Leston-Bandeira from the University of Leeds and published by Oxford University Press and the Hansard Society.
Chaired by BBC Radio 4’s Carolyn Quinn, the launch attracted a lively question-and-answer session, involving a panel of several of the book’s contributors. One of those contributors, Sir John Curtice, oversaw the highly accurate exit poll, which first told the public that Theresa May had not acheived a majority. Other speakers at the event were Tim Bale, Kate Dommett and Eunice Goes.
The book includes detailed analyses of the performance of all the political parties, assessments of how parties used – and financed - traditional and social media modes of campaigning, exploration of gendered and age-related voting patterns and dedicated coverage of the contests in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
