Dennis Kavanagh & Philip Cowley 
The British General Election of 2010 [PDF ebook] 

Foreword by David Butler Preface 1. The Election That Never Was: 2007 2. Recession, Scandal and War: The Political Context 3. From Blair to Brown: Labour 4. A Coup of Chums: The Conservatives 5. Three Leaders, Little Progress: The Liberal Democrats 6. Fragmentation and Diversity: The Others 7. Losing It in January: The Coming of the Election 8. Cleggmania and Bigotgate: The National Campaign 9. A Long Night, With No Winner: Election Night 10. Five Days in May: The Formation of the Coalition 11. Where We Work, We Win: The Constituency Battle 12. Worms and Surges: The Polls 13. The X-Factor Election: On the Air, Martin Harrison 14. Labour No More: The Press, Margaret Scammell and Charlie Beckett 15. More Diverse, Yet More Uniform: MPs and Candidates, Byron Criddle 16. A Landmark Election: The Campaign in Retrospect Appendix 1: The Voting Statistics Appendix 2: An Analysis of the Results, John Curtice, Stephen Fisher and Robert Ford

Dennis Kavanagh is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK. His extensive works include
Thatcherism and British Politics,
British Politics: Continuities and Change, and he has been involved in every one of the Palgrave Macmillan election studies since February 1974.

Philip Cowley is Professor of Parliamentary Government at the University of Nottingham, UK. His many publications include The
Rebels: How Blair Mislaid His Majority and
Conscience and Parliament.