The UK Election: 6. How important are marginal seats?
The significance of marginal seats, constituency boundary changes, tactical voting and electoral pacts.
Understand the UK Election is a simple 10-part guide to everything that is going on in the election, with Adam Fleming.
Seats with slim majorities have played a big part in determining the outcome of the election in recent years, but how will constituency boundary changes affect this? What impact can tactical voting and electoral pacts have? And how safe are ‘safe seats’ really?
This episode was hosted Adam Fleming, from Newscast and AntiSocial, with Alex Forsyth, political correspondent and host of Any Questions, and Peter Barnes, the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s senior elections and political analyst.
Producers: Alix Pickles and Alex Lewis
Production Manager: Janet Staples
Editor: Sam Bonham
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- Mon 17 Jun 2024 13:45´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 FM
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Adam Fleming unpicks some of the key elements of the UK election.