Is this the most dissapointing/crushing election night in the history of the Labour Party?
Well, no. If we're just talking postwar defeats, cases can be made for 1951, 1959, 1970, 1979, 1987 and 1992. The wins in 1950 and in October 1974 was also very disappointing as Labour had reasonable expectations of clear majorities.
I would have thought that the addition of the SNP factor/total wipeout in Scotland, combined with a thoroughly unexpected Conservative majority, might have made this one even worse - even though there, of course, have been other surprising defeats to the Tories as well.
Though both 1979 and 1987 must have been rather expected, right? Virtually all of the final polls showed Tory leads (not that the British polling industry has proven to be particularly reliable
) .
