Abstract
HE RESIGNATION of Lord Woolton as the chairman of the Party Organisation' may conveniently be taken as marking the end of the postwar reorganization of English Conservative party machinery, which was already under way when he assumed the chairmanship in 1946, but which is largely associated with his name. The electioneering machine he has left has been described in the Nuffield election studies and the operation of the national organs of the party has received a good deal of attention lately, but constituency organization has received little notice, except for its formal aspect and its relation to the national party.2 The purpose of this article is to give some idea of how the English Conservative constituency association is now run and who runs it. The account inevitably includes an examination of the local procedure for selecting a parliamentary candidate. I
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