Electoral Geography, the analysis of spatial patterns of voting, is undergoing something of a renaissance with new methodological advances, theoretical shifts and changes in the political landscape. This collection integrates new conceptual approaches with a broad array of case studies from the USA, Europe and Asia. This volume examines key questions in Electoral Geography and examines the changes that have occurred over the last 30years.

Part I Conceptual Foundations; Chapter 1 Introduction, Barney Warf, Jonathan Leib; Chapter 2 On the Shores of the "Moribund Backwater"?: Trends in Electoral Geography Research Since 1990, Jonathan Leib, Nicholas Quinton; Part II Electoral Geography Outside of the US; Chapter 3 Electoral Systems, Geography, and Political Behaviour: United Kingdom Examples, Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie; Chapter 4 Spatial Regression for Electoral Studies: The Case of the Italian Lega Nord, Michael Shin, John Agnew; Chapter 5 Elections and Cultural Political Economy: The Political Geography of the Bloque Nacionalista Galego in the Galicia Autonomous Community, Erinn P. Nicley; Chapter 6 Place, Identity, and Taiwan's Presidential Elections, 1996-2008, Daniel McGowin; Chapter 7 The Power of Definition: The Puerto Rican Diaspora and the Island's Status Referenda, Luis D. Sánchez-Ayala; Part III Electoral Geography in the US; Chapter 8 Class, Ethnicity, Religion and Place in the 2008 US Presidential Election, Barney Warf; Chapter 9 The Emerging Geography of How Americans Cast their Ballots, Toby Moore; Chapter 10 The 2008 US Presidential Primary Elections in Geographic Perspective, Fred M. Shelly, Heather Hollen; Chapter 11 Electoral Alignments and Place-Based Cleavages in Statewide Votes in Alabama, Nicholas Quinton, Gerald R. Webster; Chapter 12 Sexual Politics and the Sunshine State: Electoral Geographies of Florida's Marriage Protection Amendment, Thomas Chapman;