Voting for Deadlock: The General Election of May 2010

Abstract

The general election of May 2010 proved to be an extraordinary affair. Both the campaign itself and the hung parliament which it produced provided the heady stuff of high political drama. Curiously, however, when the election was finally called for 6 May, the contest got off to a somewhat subdued start with the Liberal Democrats trailing well behind in the opinion polls.KeywordsOpinion PollLiberal PartySafe SeatElectoral ReformBritish PoliticsThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.