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Blimey, living in that TL must be an experience--nobody's served more than one term as President since Eisenhower!
LBJ is very disappointed in you. And I do hope @Alex Richards brings his curse of Tippecanoe TL over so you can experience pure untrammelled whiplash.
More than one full term, or if you want to put it another way, stood for president in two consecutive elections.LBJ is very disappointed in you. And I do hope @Alex Richards brings his curse of Tippecanoe TL over so you can experience pure untrammelled whiplash.
Blimey, living in that TL must be an experience--nobody's served more than one term as President since Eisenhower!
Better than that, Ed's finished proofreading the final version...
Indeed, probably to the benefit of the Tories. Still a nice wikibox idea.Of course, those vote shares would be thrown out anyway by the fact that the Liberals wouldn't even try to contest every seat.
A result like that in Wales would be... Special. I could see Welsh devolution suddenly being quite a popular policy with the Liberals
Winston Churchill (Conservative) 1940-1945I'm reading a book about 19th century Britain and the repeated mention of the (now obsolete) custom of calling a general election whenever the monarch died made me think what would have happened if that custom not been changed.
Taking the popular vote swings from polling listed on the Wikipedia page for opinion polling for the OTL UK general election of 1955 and applying it to the 1951 results, here's what a snap election would have looked like if Parliament had been dissolved with the death of George VI:
Conservative to Labour
Barry
Battersea South
Bexley
Bolton East
Brentford and Chiswick
Buckingham
Burton
Bury and Radcliffe
Chislehurst
Conway
Croydon West
Darlington
Devizes
Doncaster
Dulwich
Glasgow Govan
Glasgow Kelvingrove
Glasgow Scotstoun
King's Lynn
Lanark
Liverpool West Derby
Mid Bedfordshire
Middlesborough West
Norwich South
Oldham East
Peterborough
Plymouth Sutton
Portsmouth West
Preston North
Reading North
Rochdale
Romford
Rutherglen
Shipley
Somerset North
South Bedfordshire
South West Norfolk
Spelthorne
Stroud and Thornbury
Wycombe
Yarmouth
York
Conservative to Liberal
Aberdeenshire West
Bodmin
Caithness and Sutherland
Cornwall North
Denbigh
Devon North
Dorset North
Eye
Grantham
Honiton
Penrith and The Border
Roxburgh and Selkirk
Westbury
Labour to Liberal
Anglesley
Colne Valley
Dundee West
Merioneth
Me when reading that post:
Carter/Mondale: One Last Ride