Has Any Uk Party Got 90% Of The Seats In Any Election?

[davrobcarall]

and if not,what would happen if they did on 12th december?

[fiction-factory]

No (well not in the last 100 years, I can't be sure about before then). A large chunk of seats always vote for the same party. SNP may get 90% in Scotland and this will stop any party getting 90% of UK seats. In 197 for example Labour had a landslide victory of 1789 seats but got 64% of the seats (not bad though from only 43% of the votes cast).

Anyway, if they do, it'll be no different to when governments have had large majorities- eg when Blair's government in 1987 or some of the Thatcher ones.

[ToraToraTora]

No, but if they did they'd have a very comfortable majority.

[10ClarionSt]

Tora Man has glint in his eye at the thought of it for the Blue Tits. ;o)

[Old_Geezer]

It would mean the 20% of their candidates could turn out to be turncoats and the party would still have a chance of being allowed to govern.

[ichkeria]

1832 probably the closest it got to that.
Then the Whigs won 67% of seats on 67% of the vote.

[ichkeria]

The SNP are on course for 100% in Scotland

[Old_Geezer]

One hopes not, but if so, maybe because, as the name suggests, they aren't interested in being a national party, but simply a Scottish interest one ? (A cynic might say simply an SNP politician with dreams of independence one.) And since a national goverment won't, in the main, be interested in ensuring advantage to one area of the nation only, their role will be just another minor protest group. One might have hoped that the Scots would prefer a proper voice in the national parliament, but we'll have to see when the time comes. Perhaps it'd take spending a period without useful input, to clarify what not joining in achieves.

[ichkeria]

Let’s face it the Conservative is effectively an English Nationalist party.
Sin Fein is an Irish Nationalist party and don’t even take their seats at Westminster.
The UK is at great risk of disintegrating.

[davebro]

It'll be a minor miracle if any single party gets half the seats in this GE!

[Old_Geezer]

Don't accept that for a moment. If folk outside of England don't tend to vote for right wing parties that doesn't make the existing right wing party for English Nationalists only. It's about left/right politics, not area related (until you form or look for such a party for your own local interest or dream reasons).

[THECORBYLOON]

There are 650 seats in the UK Parliament and just over 9% are in Scotland.

That means it is possible for the SNP to get all fifty-nine seats in Scotland and another party to get more than 90% of the overall total.

[fiction-factory]

It is possible, just, thecorbyloon, in theory, for Labour or Tories to get 90% even if SNP win all the Scottish seats but only if you really think DUP, Sinn Fein won't win anything, and previous strongholds of Lab/Cons/Lib will change hands. Realistically it won't get anywhere near two thirds even if a major party collapses

[JimF]

Not in this country :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Austrian_Anschluss_referendum

[ichkeria]

Politics as a matter of fact is more and more about identity and less and less about left and right.
Whether that trend continues remains to be seen.

[Gromit]

// Labour had a landslide victory of 1789 seats but got 64% of the seats //

Which is pretty good going when there are only 650 seats ;-)

[pixie374]

I honestly can't see how the SNP have got to be a valid choice for the whole of the UK? Are they worried about anyone except Scotland? I don't see how they are even counted.

[THECORBYLOON]

The SNP is not a choice for the whole of the UK since their candidates will be standing only in Scotland.

Their are several other parties standing only in Ulster and Plaid Cymru stands only in Wales.

[steg]

//One might have hoped that the Scots would prefer a proper voice in the national parliament,//

Aye they should vote for a proper party... you don’t sell them very well tho

[THECORBYLOON]

"There are..."

[pixie374]

Who stand only in England? I assume there is one each then?