Abstract
This paper explores two ways in which the 2003 devolved elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland reveal voter judgements on devolution. The first concerns turnout, and in particular the falls in turnout recorded in Scotland and Wales. These in part reflect a perception among voters ‐ also held in Northern Ireland ‐ that devolution has not yet ‘made a difference’. The second judgement on devolution concerns the use voters have made in Scotland and Wales of the opportunity to vote in different ways for different reasons than in Westminster elections. In Northern Ireland this pattern of differential voting is absent, as fundamental constitutional and security issues dominate all elections, Westminster and devolved.
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