1970 UK General Election

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Socialist Workers Party

[Dr. Cynic]

Socialist Workers Party

There was no Socialist Workers Party candidate either historically nor in this.

[Dr. Cynic]

Based on the current projections, here's the seat count:

Conservative (including Ulster Unionists): 353
Labour: 230
New Union: 45
Liberal: 11
Others (SNP, Plaid, SDLP, SF, etc.): 11

Labour's holding out well in Wales, only one PC seat there. New Union is leading in one West Country seat Bristol South East (Tony Benn's). Some New Union seats in Scotland as well. Tories though have a clear majority. Looks like Tony Crosland might lose his seat in Great Grimsby because of the NUP challenge.

[Dr. Cynic]

Voting locked, here's the final count:

Conservative (including UUP): 346
Labour: 233
New Union: 44
Liberal: 14
Others: 10

A couple of late Labour votes pushed their total up. A late Liberal vote also nabbed them a couple of extra seats from the original projection. Write up will probably be tomorrow, so feel free to discuss the election results tonight

[DC Al Fine]

Cynic further proves that the only way to have interesting Atlas elections is to have a far left party siphon away votes from a centre-left party.

How many seats did the Tories win where Labour + New Union > Conservative?

[Leftbehind]

Cynic further proves that the only way to have interesting Atlas elections is to have a far left party siphon away votes from a centre-left party.

How many seats did the Tories win where Labour + New Union > Conservative?

The left & right in both this and the last election (we/a)re neck and neck - if anything, even though the seat figures for the left were more generous than I was expecting, I fear the right will win consistently until this is resolved. Wait and see, I suppose.

[Dr. Cynic]

If you combined the Labour-NUP votes, the Tories would still have won the election, but it'd be another hung parliament.

Lower than you think. 49 seats, including many Labour incumbents were ousted by Tories where the combined Labour NUP vote would have won (Also about 11 NUP seats where this is the case and the Tory finished third. Mostly industrial seats like in Birmingham and Bolsover where Dennis Skinner ran up a big majority). The Tories did very well on their own in most seats though.

[Dr. Cynic]

Cynic further proves that the only way to have interesting Atlas elections is to have a far left party siphon away votes from a centre-left party.

How many seats did the Tories win where Labour + New Union > Conservative?

The left & right in both this and the last election (we/a)re neck and neck - if anything, even though the seat figures for the left were more generous than I was expecting, I fear the right will win consistently until this is resolved. Wait and see, I suppose.

It's sometimes difficult to get exactly right, but based on the swingometer calculations plus the weighted percentages, I think what happened is a likely result.

[DC Al Fine]

Thanks.

Labour's 233 seats & 17% of the vote is ridiculous. Time for MMP!

[Dr. Cynic]

Thanks.

Labour's 233 seats & 17% of the vote is ridiculous. Time for MMP!

They didn't get 17% of the popular vote. As I said, the NUP vote was weighted because they only ran in 140 constituencies and thus the calculations between Tory and Labour were closer. Overall, Labour figured about 30% overall. NUP about 15%. Liberals around 13% overall. Tories most of (but not all) the rest.

[Supersonic]

Yay, a Conservative majority government! Albeit a Heath one..

Thanks.

Labour's 233 seats & 17% of the vote is ridiculous. Time for MMP!

No, no, no!