ABSTRACT
Our description and discussion of constituency campaigning has concentrated thus far on outlining the general characteristics of campaigns. It seems appropriate, however, to spend some time describing some specific campaigns in rather more detail. In doing so we are reviving what was a tradition in the early Nuffield studies. The study of the 1951 general election included brief descriptive sketches of the campaign in six individual constituencies, and such sketches remained a feature of the Nuffield studies up to the report on the 1966 election. In the 1970 study this feature was dropped in favour of 'a more general and possibly a more systematic treatment' of local campaigning (Butler and Pinto-Duschinsky, 1971: xiii).
