Patterns of Constituency Campaigning: Persuading, Mobilising and Getting out the Vote

In the previous chapter we concentrated on describing how local parties prepared for the general election campaign, the availability of appropriate resources, and the organisation of the election 'machine'. We now go on to consider what the parties actually did, the nature and extent of the activities that they undertook during the campaign period and on polling day itself. As before, the discussion is largely based on the data derived from our survey of election agents.