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Kind of like the "era/age of good feeling"

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In theory... the problem Churchill had was the fact that a lot of the Tory MP's elected in the 1931 farce were very hostile to him and very hostile to his anti-appeasment rhetoric in the 1930's... the fact that the second most prominant anti-appear was Nye Bevan probably didn't help Churchill's image with his backbenchers...

Although Churchill did win the 1951 election, Atlee won more votes overall. At the time "the shires" were heavily over-represented at Westminster... making Atlee's '45 landslide all the more amazing.

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I thought that was ended by the 1940s redistrictings?

Nah... the worst excesses were removed in 1948 (I think. It may have been 1950), but there was a slight bias towards the Tories until the 1970's.

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What goes around comes around