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Originally Posted by ZOOMiata

I didn't criticize the job he is doing -- but I think you could agree that compared to many of our past PMs he's rather one-dimensional. And, he may have a majority of seats, but not a majority of the popular vote.

He is one dimensional, boring and smile less... But the opposite traits are not on my list of required qualifications for prime Minister

As for a majority of seats and popular votes is pretty close to a pipe dream with 3 viable parties and doubt we'll see it any time soon.

The closest that I participated in was in 1984 when the Conservative had a majority but only 50% of the popular vote, 50.1% would be the majority.

For nostalgia, here are the election years where the governing party had also the majority of popular votes, note that except for 1958 & 1949 there was only 2 "real parties" to vote for:


1958 (53.7%) C

1949 (50.1%) L

1917 (57.0%) C

1911 (51.2%) C

1908 (50.6%) L

1904 (52.5%) L

1900 (52.0%) L

1891 (52.0%) C

1887 (50.7%) C

1878 (53.2%) C

1874 (53.8%) L