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   From: pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk   
      
   In uk.media.tv.misc on Wed, 17 May 2006, Ian Morrison wrote :   
   >   
   >IIRC, the last party to gain anything approaching 50% (49.4%) of the   
   >vote in a UK general election was Labour, in 1951. They lost.   
   >   
   The Tories got 49.7% in 1955. At that point, the 3rd party challenge was   
   virtually non-existent.   
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   Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett   
      
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