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The 1906 Election
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The 1906 Election The Liberals won the 1906 election by 399 seats to 156, which the Tories got. Although this seemed like a landslide for them they won 43.4% of the votes to the liberals 49.4% that made the gap seem not so wide. In the 1900 election the Tories defeated the liberals and exactly the opposite happened. So the Tories ended up with 402 seats compared to the liberals 183. Again this seemed a lot but when you split it up into proportional representation there was only 5.3% percent difference. Given that the labour party had lost the 1885 and the 1900 elections by some considerable margin this was quite some turn around. The first theory to why the Tories lost the election was the Boer war as it transformed the political climate in Britain. Voters blamed the government for incompetence. The war encouraged chamberlain to launch his tariff reform...
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