Tuesday, April 29, 2003

A few posts below I quoted the Guardian as saying 'To have even a small overall majority would require a 12% swing, but a mere 1% fall in their vote would see them lose a quarter of their seats.'

The first bit is so amazing (and the reasons why have been posted on this site before) that I accepted the second without checking. However having checked that I think it's wrong -- a 1% swing would lost them only 4 seats and it would require a 5% swing for them to lose a quarter, or 40 seats.

posted by Matthew @ 4/29/2003 03:00:00 PM Comments: 0