SPACE, PLACE AND POLLBOOKS - INCORPORATING A NEGLECTED ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY

This paper calls for the incorporation of pre-1872 (and especially ear ly Victorian) elections into the electoral geography research agenda. It argues that early, Victorian elections provide a rare opportunity t o examine actual voting behaviour at the individual level and also con stitute a valid focus of enquiry in their own right. The paper conclud es by, discussing some of the principal methodological implications of an historical electoral geography.