Talk:Liverpool West Derby (UK Parliament constituency)
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[edit] 2001 Liberal Second Place Claim
I don't think the following:
In the 2001 general election, it was the only constituency in which the runner-up represented a non-parliamentary party, namely the modern Liberal Party.
is entirely accurate; The claim is also repeated on Liberal Party (UK, 1989). There were a number of instances of "others" holding second:
- Brentwood and Ongar (UK Parliament constituency) - Martin Bell (Independent) comes second.
- North Down (UK Parliament constituency) - Robert McCartney (UKUP) comes second.
- Lagan Valley (UK Parliament constituency) - Seamus Close (Alliance) comes second.
--New Progressive 21:38, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
- Fair point. I've removed it for now, although if your counterexamples are the only ones, it could probably be re-worded so to exclude the Northern Irish cases (making it refer only to Great Britain), and as Bell was an "Independent" he wasn't strictly representing to a party as such. The fact that the post-1988 Liberal Party beat the Liberal Democrats was so unusual that it probably deserves a mention somehow! --RFBailey 22:28, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
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- As far as I am aware these are the only counter-examples: I've checked everywhere else that I seem to remember having a strong other party preference, and I can find nothing. For the record, I checked the People's Justice Party in Birmingham, the BNP in Oldham & Bradford and the Speaker's seat. I don't think there were any Save our [insert local service of your choice] candidates who did particularly well, except obviously Dr Taylor for IKHH winning in Wyre Forest. --New Progressive 23:44, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
