Ron Johnston: Human geographer who showed that voters are influenced not only by their beliefs, but by where they live and work

Ron Johnston, who has died aged 79, was a human geographer whose work in the field of electoral geography was drawn upon by political parties and policymakers, and influenced legislation on constituency boundaries.

Also renowned as a historian of his subject, due to his magisterial account of Anglo-American human geography, Geography and Geographers (1979), and a prolific scholar who published about 40 books and 800 papers on a wide range of subjects, from the late 1970s, Ron specialised increasingly in elections. CONT.

Charles Pattie, Guardian

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