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  1. Sir David Edgeworth Butler CBE FBA (17 October 1924 – 8 November 2022) was an English political scientist who specialised in psephology, the study of elections. He has been described as "the father of modern election science".

  2. Nov 28, 2022 · Sir David Henry Edgeworth Butler CBE, psephologist. Born: 17 October 1924. Died: 8 November, 2022, aged 98. Known as the father of modern election science, David Butler once dismissed the...

  3. Nov 9, 2022 · Sir David Butler, who has died aged 98, was an Oxford political science don and the founding father of British psephology, the study of elections and how voters behave.

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  4. Nov 9, 2022 · Sir David Butler, a trailblazing former BBC election analyst who pioneered exit polls and the concept of vote swing, has died at the age of 98. The polling maestro was hailed as "the father of...

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  5. Dec 12, 2022 · David Butler was a model academic political scientist, even if he flinched at the term. In print and on air he was a consummate communicator to a wide audience, explaining quite complicated ideas in plain, muscular, accessible language, without trace of technical jargon, and imparting his evident enthusiasm for the subject.

  6. Nov 9, 2022 · Psephologist who helped to invent the swingometer and became an essential part of BBC Television’s all-night general election coverage. Wednesday November 09 2022, 5.00pm GMT, The Times. Butler...

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  8. Psephology — the study of elections — is a field that was pioneered by Nuffield College through early political scientists such as R.B. McCallum and Alison Readman (who wrote the first Nuffield election study in 1947), Herbert Nicholas (who wrote the second in 1950) and David Butler (who wrote or co-wrote each study from 1951 to 2005).

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