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The Birth and Death of a Three-Party System: Scotland in the Seventies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

Jack Brand ,
Duncan McLean  and
William Miller
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In the general election of October 1974 the Scottish National Party gained 30·4 per cent of the vote in Scotland. This result and the build-up to it in the previous two elections, seemed to indicate a new pattern for Scottish voting. British and American writers had drawn attention to the decline of partisanship as a basis for voting. In Britain, the class basis of this partisanship had been dominant but now appeared to recede. Growing support for the SNP might have been an extension of this. Some went further and argued that a new issue – self-government for Scotland – had displaced class loyalties.

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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 1983 , pp. 463 - 488
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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