How Parties have Adapted to Change – Cadre Party
How Parties Have Adapted to Change – The Mass Membership Party
How Parties Have Adapted to Change – The Catch-All Party
How Parties Have Adapted to Change – The Cartel Party
Theories of Party Systems -The Frozen Party System
Theories of Party Systems – The Downs Model
Theories of Party Systems – Satori
How do voters decide who to vote for
How do voters decide who to vote for – The Michigan Studies
How do voters decide who to vote for – Social Class
How do voters decide who to vote for – Partisan Dealignment
Electoral Geography of Great Britain
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Conservatives
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Labour
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Liberals
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Plaid Cymru
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – SNP
Electoral Geography in Great Britain – UKIP
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Green Party
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Respect
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – BNP
General Election Campaign – Choosing the Date
General Election Campaign – The Media
General Election Campaigns – Three types of Media
General Election Campaigns – Opinion Polls
General Election Campaigns – turn-out
Why did people vote the way they did – Social Class
Why did people vote the way they did – Housing Tenure
Why did people vote the way they did – Age
Why did people vote the way they did – Gender
The British National Party was a breakaway party from the National Front, which had had some electoral success in the 1970s.
When Nick Griffin became leader in 1999, he sought to modernise the party’s image and it achieved a significant vote in Oldham and Burnley in the 2001 general election and in the Pennine towns in local elections.
It began to poll much higher in the local elections in 2006, becoming the second party in Barking and Dagenham. It won two seats in the European elections in 2009 and began to poll well in local by-elections across the country and contested half of the seats in the 2010 general election.
Griffin’s poor performance on BBC’s Question Time programme and infighting, typical of far right parties, led to a collapse in its vote. This has been coupled with infighting, including legal action, and the ousting of Griffin as leader.
In the 2014 European Election the BNP lost all of their seats and have no Members of the European Parliament. It is largely thought that this was due to the success of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), who took over the platform for talking about immigration in the UK in a way that connected better with voters.
After several further rounds of internal fighting the BNP was declared bankrupt and candidates were receiving a few hundred votes.
