The British General Election of 2015 is a must-read for anyone wanting to know how the action unfolded in the most unpredictable election for a generation. Drawing on hundreds of confidential interviews with all the key players, it offers a compelling insider's guide to the election's background, campaign, and the results which led to the formation of the first majority Conservative government in eighteen years. Designed to appeal to everyone from Westminster insiders, politics students and the wider general public, this is the authoritative account of the 2015 election. Continuing a proud Palgrave Macmillan tradition, The British General Election of 2015 is the 19th edition and celebrates the 70th year of this prestigious series.

Is the latest installment in a prestigious series, stretching back to the 1945 general election: The British General Election of 2015 is the 19th edition and celebrates the 70th year of the series Written by leading UK Politics experts, with significant academic and practitioner experience Has been consistently highly reviewed across 18 editions: 'The Bible of General Elections', David Dimbleby, BBC; 'The gold standard of political writing'; Gary Gibbon, Channel 4; 'Treated by political scientists as near-definitive', The Guardian; 'Almost part of the British constitution, though much more solid and authoritative', New Statesman

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Philip Cowley is Professor of Parliamentary Government at the University of Nottingham, UK. His many publications include The Rebels: How Blair Mislaid His Majority and Conscience and Parliament.

Dennis Kavanagh is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK. His extensive works include Thatcherism and British Politics, British Politics: Continuities and Change, and he has been involved in every one of the Palgrave Macmillan election studies since February 1974.

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Preface
1 I'm Afraid There is No Money: Five Years of Coalition
2 How Hard Can it Be? The Conservatives
3 Brand Failure: Labour
4 Zugzwang: The Liberal Democrats and Others
5 The Long and the Short of the SNP Breakthrough; Richard Rose and Mark Shephard
6 Roads and Car Crashes: The Election Approaches
7 Dead Cats and Bogy Men: The National Campaign
8 Different Scripts Required: Election Night
9 Margin of Error: The Polls
10 Where to Drop the Bombs: The Constituency Battle
11 The Battle for the Stage: Broadcasting; Charlie Beckett
12 Still Life in the Old Attack Dogs: The Press; David Deacon and Dominic Wring
13 Variable Diversity: MPs and Candidates; Byron Criddle
14 Out of the Blue: The Campaign in Retrospect
Appendix 1: The Results Analysed; John Curtice, Stephen D. Fisher and Robert Ford
Appendix 2: The Voting Statistics