The clearest example is that judges with high
liberal voting percentages (such as Justices Arbour and Fish) tended to vote more conservatively in the presence of conservative interveners.
Not exact matches
This is illustrated in Figures 2 to 4 which show, respectively, the
percentage of the
vote gained by the Conservative,
Liberal and Labour parties in general elections since 1959.
The
Liberal Democrats remained the second largest party by total seats and
percentage vote, while the Labour Party had the largest net gain of five seats.
The
Liberal Democrats held all their existing seats, remaining the second largest party by total seats and
percentage vote, whilst the Labour Party lost four seats.
Where Nick Clegg visited, the
Liberal Democrats received a boost in their
vote share of 1.5
percentage points.
Robert regarding your view that labour cold win with 35 %, yes, but we won in 1974 ′ with 37 % and I believe Callaghan actually got a few more
votes in 79 ′ than 74 although the
percentage was the me, the point was that the 74 manifesto was so far from what the public felt, that the following election lots of
liberals or stay at home voters came out and the Tories would get 13 + million for the next f our.
The Labour
vote held up quite well in Scotland, what happened was that the SSP and Solidarity collapsed and the Greens and
Liberal Democrats had losses - this happened in the Scottish Local Elections as well, the overall
votes for Labour were within 1 % of those of the SNP and even as a
percentage vote only marginally down on 2003 despite high turnout.