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Why did Labour win the 1997 General Election?
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Why did Labour win the 1997 General Election? The 1997 election was not like any other election in post war history. Usually a government will start its term strongly and finish it strongly while having a rough period in its middle years. However for the Conservatives it got worse from the day sterling dropped out of the ERM all the way back in 1992. The result of the '97 election was immediately hailed by most political analysts as a labour landslide victory. Seeing as they now had 418 (a gain of 147 on 1992) seats in the House of Commons this is hardly suprising but what was failed to be noticed was that they only received 44.4% of the vote within Great Britain and yet gained 643% of the seats in the Lower House. The Conservatives have felt annoyed as they received only 13.1% less votes than Labour at 31.3% but...
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