Candidate geolocation and voter choice in the 2013 English County Council elections

The degree of ‘localness’ of candidates, including their residential location, has long been theorised to influence voters at election time. Individual-level tests of distance effects in the 2010 British general elections demonstrated that, controlling for standard explanations of vote, the distance...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kai Arzheimer, Jocelyn Evans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-06-01
Series:Research & Politics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168014538769