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• 05 Nov 08
  

  bob crawley

  politics election results 2001

  • This may be the single most important fact about the last general election. Labour won another national majority of seats, and indeed they won a large majority of English seats - but the Tories gained marginally more popular votes than Labour in England. The full result was startling. In May 2005, Labour won 286 out of 529 English seats with 8.05m votes, or 35.5% of the popular vote; Tories 194 seats with 8.10m votes or 35.7%, Liberal Democrats 47 seats, with 5.201m or 22.9%.
  • This may be the single most important fact about the last general election. Labour won another national majority of seats, and indeed they won a large majority of English seats - but the Tories gained marginally more popular votes than Labour in England. The full result was startling. In May 2005, Labour won 286 out of 529 English seats with 8.05m votes, or 35.5% of the popular vote; Tories 194 seats with 8.10m votes or 35.7%, Liberal Democrats 47 seats, with 5.201m or 22.9%.
• 30 Jul 08
  

  Tom Griffin

  England Scotland

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