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Anton Kreitzer
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« on: January 19, 2013, 08:20:49 AM »

Do you think Labour would have done better or worse had Blair not resigned?

I personally think Labour would have done worse, and the Tories would have gained an overall majority.
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Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends
Anton Kreitzer
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E: 8.00, S: 3.11

« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2013, 04:26:51 AM »
« Edited: January 24, 2013, 06:04:27 PM by Reagan and Thatcher's Long Lost Son »

Hard to say, but I suspect it wouldn't have been much different.  Blair had become very unpopular towards the end, but Brown was too by the time of the election, so I doubt there are that many people who voted Labour with Brown who wouldn't have done with Blair (and they'd probably have mostly voted Lib Dem or other rather than Tory).

I imagine moving 1-3% of the votes from Labour to Lib Dem would have some interesting affects for the Tories.

Yeah, a majority...

Not necessarily, it depends on where the votes move, as swings are never uniform. If the swing was uniform, though, the result with a 3% swing from Labour to Lib Dem would look like this:

Conservative: 310
Labour: 238
Liberal Democrat: 73
Other: 28:

Figures calculated from here:
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/swingometer-map

EDIT: Corrected spelling of Labour.
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