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| | % | | MPs |
| Lab: | 4.8 | | 29 |
| Con: | 43.4 | | 156 |
| Liberal: | 49.4 | | 399 |
| Irish Nationalist Party: | 0.7 | | 83 |
| Other: | 1.7 | | 3 |
(Turnout: 83.2%) | | | | | Hit for six
The Liberals may have routed the Tories with a 143-seat majority in 1906, but their electoral pact sowed the seeds of a future Labour government, writes Ros Taylor. | | | | | Liberal and Labour victories
January 15 1906: Conservative rout
· Mr Balfour defeated
· Mr Winston Churchill's triumph | | | Chester and Chinese Labour
January 9 1906: The speakers who supported Mr Yerburgh at a meeting in the Town Hall Square, Chester last night found their statements often contradicted and their arguments rejected by a good portion of the crowd. |
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2001: Lab