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The election announcement on Monday, 11 May, came as no surprise. Well before the local council voting on 7 May gave the psephological go-ahead, Mrs Thatcher and her Downing Street spokesmen may have allowed expectations to rise beyond the point of no return (see p. 41).
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See J. Todd and B. Butcher, Electoral Registration in 1981 (OPCS 1982).
M. and S. Pinto-Duschinsky, Voter Registration: Problems and Solutions (Constitutional Reform Centre, 1987).
see also J. Todd and J. Eldridge, Electoral Registration in Inner City Areas 1983–4 (HMSO, 1987).
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Butler, D., Kavanagh, D. (1988). Campaign. In: The British General Election of 1987. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19143-7_5
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