Author:
Leonard Dick,Mortimore Roger
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1. See Pippa Norris, British By Elections: The Volatile Electorate (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990),
2. and Chris Cook and John Ramsden (eds), By-elections in British Politics (London: University College London Press, 1997), which both include accounts of many of the most significant by-elections of the twentieth century.
3. The standard work on local elections in Britain, by the accepted experts on the subject, Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, is Local Elections in Britain (London: Routledge, 1997). Results in detail for England and Wales are collected in the annual Local Elections Handbook, compiled by the same authors and published by Local Government Chronicle Communications; summary results are published in the annual British Elections and Parties Review (London: Frank Cass). For local elections in Scotland, results are collected by H. M. Bochel and D. T. Denver and published annually as The Scottish Council Elections: Results and Statistics (Newport on Tay: Election Studies). The House of Commons library now usually produces a research paper summarising each year’s results which is available on the Internet.
4. For a more general study of the structure and functions of local government, see J. A. Chandler, Local Government Today, 3rd edition (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001).
5. Detailed accounts of the first two Euro-election campaigns in Britain are given in David Butler and David Marquand, European Elections and British Politics (London: Macmillan, 1981)