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Originally Posted by BonnieDundee
Well logically they would have won had they been allowed a run off.
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Not necessarily. They (the europhile Liberal 'Democrats') failed to make the second round of voting (in this month's London Mayoral Election) because they didn't get enough votes in the first round for their candidate to be one of the two in the second (final) round (i.e. the second-preference vote).
Every time there is a Mayoral Election in the capital the Liberal 'Democrats' say after their deserved defeat at the polls "We would have won if our candidate had got into the second round of voting." Which would be rather like former Labour Labour leader and Prime Minister Harold Wilson saying "I would have won the 1970 General Election had I not lost it."
He never said such a thing of course - because he did not whine in defeat like the europhile Liberal 'Democrats' tend to do.
The Liberal 'Democrats' do not deserve to win and a large number of people only vote for them as a protest vote against one or both of the two big parties - not because they actually agree with all or anything they stand for.