Contents: Part I Conceptual Foundations: Introduction, Barney Warf and Jonathan Leib On the shores of the 'moribund backwater'?: trends in electoral geography research since 1990, Jonathan Leib and Nicholas Quinton. Part II Electoral Geography Outside of the US: Electoral systems, geography, and political behaviour: United Kingdom examples, Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie Spatial regression for electoral studies: the case of the Italian Lega Nord, Michael Shin and John Agnew Elections and cultural political economy: the political geography of the Bloque Nacionalista Galego in the Galicia autonomous community, Erinn P. Nicley Place, identity, and Taiwan's presidential elections, 1996-2008, Daniel McGowin The power of definition: the Puerto Rican diaspora and the Island's status referenda, Luis D. Sanchez-Ayala. Part III Electoral Geography in the US: Class, ethnicity, religion and place in the 2008 US Presidential election, Barney Warf The emerging geography of how Americans cast their ballots, Toby Moore The 2008 US Presidential primary elections in geographic perspective, Fred M. Shelley and Heather Hollen Electoral alignments and place-based cleavages in statewide votes in Alabama, Nicholas Quinton and Gerald R. Webster Sexual politics and the Sunshine State: electoral geographies of Florida's Marriage Protection Amendment, Thomas Chapman Index.