1. British General Election 2001
For example, in the 2001 General Election, whilst Labour won a 42% share of the popular vote, they won 64% of the seats, thus the results were biased in their favour. ... Seats won Change since 1997 Total votes cast % share of popular vote % share of seats Labour 413 -6 10,740,168 42 64 Conservative 166 +1 8,352,845 33 26 Lib-Democrat 56 +6 4,815,249 19 8 Others 10 0 688,693 6 2 Another factor, which would have contributed towards Labour's successful election, was the low turnout of voters on June 7th In fact; the election of 2001 produced the lowest turnout figure since 1918, wi...
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