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The UK Election: 6. How important are marginal seats?

Understand the UK Election is a simple 10-part guide to everything that is going on in the election, with Adam Fleming. Seats with slim majorities have played a big part in determining the outcome of the election in recent years, but how will constituency boundary changes affect this? What impact can tactical voting and electoral pacts have? And how safe are ‘safe seats’ really? This episode was hosted Adam Fleming, from Newscast and AntiSocial, with Alex Forsyth, political correspondent and host of Any Questions, and Peter Barnes, the BBC’s senior elections and political analyst. Producers: Alix Pickles and Alex Lewis Production Manager: Janet Staples Editor: Sam Bonham

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  The UK Election: 1. How do you get the campaign right?

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  The UK Election: 2. How are candidates selected?

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  The UK Election: 3. What difference does a manifesto make?

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  The UK Election: 4. Why do people vote the way they do?

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  The UK Election: 5. How do you make sure voting runs smoothly?

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  The UK Election: 7. What can polling predict?

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  The UK Election: 8. What’s the media’s role in an election?

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  The UK Election: 9. How does the election differ across the UK?

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  The UK Election: 10. What happens on election day?

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  The US Election: 1. Primaries, Caucuses and the National Conventions

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  The US Election: 2. The Campaign Trail

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  The US Election: 3. The TV Debates

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  The US Election: 5. Becoming President

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  The US Election: 4. The General Election

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  Israel and the Palestinians: 1. The Palestinians