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Account for the Liberal landslide in the 1906 General Election
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Account for the Liberal landslide in the 1906 General Election In the 1906 general election the Liberals gained 377 (plus 22 Lib-Lab) seats, the Conservative Unionists gained 157 (132 were Tariff Reformers), Labour Representation Committee gained 29 and the Irish Nationalists gained 83 seats. This even know was the biggest defeat a Conservative Party has suffered (they lost by 220 seats.) What made this defeat even more noticeable was the fact that they had won 245 less seats than in 1900 and even the former Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour, lost his seat. These facts start to ask another question, was it more a great victory for the Liberals or a humiliating defeat for the Conservatives. There is a lot of evidence to suggest it was a humiliating defeat for the Conservatives. The Conservatives had been in power for the last two decades and so did people just wanted a change? Was...
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