The 1981 and February 1982 general elections in the Republic of Ireland
Comportement ; Comportement électoral ; Elections générales, 1981-1982 ; Géographie de l'Europe ; Géographie électorale ; Irlande ; Parti politique ; Vie politique
The geography of US union elections 2 : performance of the United Auto Workers union and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union, 1970-82
Années 1970-1982 ; Elections professionnelles ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie de l'Amérique ; Géographie politique ; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ; Syndicat ; United Auto Workers
The sources of electoral bias in Jamaican elections results, 1967-1980
Caraïbes ; Comportement électoral ; Election ; Géographie de l'Amérique ; Géographie politique ; Géographie électorale ; Jamaïque ; Système électoral
Jamaican election results for the four General Elections between 1976 and 1980 show considerable electoral bias, with substantial mismatch between a party's percentage of votes cast and its percentage of seats. No circumstantial evidence
of manipulation of constituency boundaries to produce this bias is provided by statistical analysis of the election results. (MPM).
The geography of US union elections 4 : patterns of close elections and determinants of the margins of victory and loss (the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union and the United Auto Workers union, 1970-82)
Années 1971-1982 ; Contentieux électoral ; Elections professionnelles ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie humaine ; Géographie politique ; Géographie électorale ; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ; Résultats électoraux ; Syndicat ouvrier
Geographical issues and outcomes in South Africa's 1989 general election
Afrique du Sud ; Apartheid ; Election ; Géographie de l'Afrique ; Géographie politique ; Parti politique ; Ségrégation
The issues and results of the South African White House of Assembly election in 1989 are assessed. The rise of the Conservative Party and decline of the National Party were markedly regional in character. - (AJC)
The Dunedin mayoral election. A symbol of uneven development
Dunedin ; Développement inégal ; Développement urbain ; Economie urbaine ; Election ; Géographie politique ; Nouvelle-Zélande ; Politique urbaine ; Pouvoir local
Election ; Local authority ; New Zealand ; Political geography ; Uneven development ; Urban development ; Urban economy ; Urban policy
In 1995, Dunedin elected its first woman and first Sikh mayor. The paper argues that the symbolic discourse of the mayoral election confronted the Dunedin electorate with the question of fairness or equity in the city. Turner's victory signalled
the symbolic rejection by a plurality of voters of the ruling neo-liberal political economy of Dunedin. In the same election the incumbent council, in a political reproduction of the ruling order, was returned. The paper explores this contradiction.
Afrique du Sud ; Collectivité locale ; Date 2011 ; Election ; Géographie politique ; Parti politique ; Politique locale
Election ; Local government unit ; Local policy ; Political geography ; Political party ; South Africa
Drawing on data from the 2001 and 2006 local government elections, and the national and provincial elections of 2004 and 2009, the paper highlights and discusses, with particular focus on the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, the critical results
and trends stemming from the 2011 municipal elections. It concludes that the South African political landscape is volatile, with political parties having the opportunity to seize political spaces. - (AJC)
Election ; Guatemala ; Local government ; Political geography ; Regional disparities
Using maps and regression analysis, the AA. sort out the varying turnout rates in elections across the 330 municipalities of Guatemala. An unexpected finding is that turnout covaries with the share of the population that is indigenous
Ethnicity, election and emergency. The 1987 Fiji general election in the context of contemporary political geography
Administration ; Constitution ; Election ; Ethnie ; Fidji ; Géographie de l'Océanie ; Géographie politique ; Géographie électorale ; Idéologie ; Indiens ; Parti politique ; Pouvoir
The 1987 Fijian general election, and the subsequent military coups are inextricably linked and require a framework for analysis that incorporates electoral geography within a broader political geography framework. Taylor's model provides
The geography of US union elections. 3 : the context and structure of union electoral performance (the International Brotherhood of Electrical workers union and the United Auto workers union, 1970-82)
Années 1970-1982 ; Elections professionnelles ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie humaine ; Géographie électorale ; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ; Modélisation ; Organisation ; Société ; Syndicat ouvrier ; Travail ; United Auto Workers