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- Title
An Absorbing Hanging.
- Authors
Geddes, Andrew; Tonge, Jonathan
- Abstract
The article examines the general election in Great Britain on May 6, 2010, which resulted in no political party winning a majority in the House of Commons, a so-called "hung" Parliament. The possibility that the country's two party system has been permanently altered in such a way as that one-party majority governments will become less likely in the future are considered. The formation of a coalition government by Prime Minister David Cameron, consisting of his own Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats, is discussed. A brief summary is presented of the election campaigns of the three leading parties, and reasons for the loss of a majority by the Labour Party are examined. The equivocal position of the Liberal Democrats, who have joined a government pledged to large cuts in public expenditures many of the party's voters and members oppose, is discussed. A rise in voter turnout is noted.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ELECTIONS; GOVERNMENT spending policy; VOTER turnout; COALITION governments; CAMERON, David, 1966-; POLITICAL parties; BRITISH politics &; government, 2007-
- Publication
Parliamentary Affairs, 2010, Vol 63, Issue 4, p866
- ISSN
0031-2290
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pa/gsq034