Talk:1979 United Kingdom general election

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:17, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Photos
I think it would be better to have photos of the three party leaders from the actual time. These photos are from later on, especially the photo of David Steel. He looked much younger than this in 1979. Ajs41 (talk) 19:51, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * You're quite right, but we can only use photos which are licensed so that we can use them freely. The pictures currently in the article reflect what is available. Warofdreams talk 00:27, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Labour Isn't Working
Inspired by the discussion at Articles for deletion/Loony left I was going to cite the example of possibly the most famous British political campaign slogan, "Labour isn't working". However I've discovered we have no significant coverage of it at all on Wikipedia, just a couple of mentions at Margaret Thatcher and Saatchi & Saatchi. I don't think it deserves more than a paragraph of coverage, but it does merit that and I think that the "Campaign" section of this article would be the natural home for it. When we have some coverage Labour isn't working/Labour Isn't Working (I don't know what the correct capitalisation is) should then redirect to that section if people agree. Thryduulf (talk) 23:04, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Confidence Motion forcing the GE
Changed a line that asserted the lost vote forced a GE, the implication was that lost confidence votes always cause elections, that's not true. Callaghan, having lost the vote, could have either resigned as PM, in which case Thatcher would have been called, or ask for a dissolution to fight a GE; he announced publicly he would do so "We shall take our case to the country". Confidence votes lost don't automatically trigger elections. 82.38.130.34 (talk) 17:54, 29 May 2010 (UTC)MatGB

Swing
"saw a 5.2% swing from Labour" where does this magic 5.2 come from?Kitchen Knife (talk) 21:58, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
 * It's widely given - see, for example, here. You can also work it out using the figures in the article - see swing for details. Warofdreams talk 01:38, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Map
The map seems to be missing a couple of Liberals and has made what looks like Enfield Southgate independent. Can anyone correct it?--82.35.251.109 (talk) 11:28, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I've uploaded a new higher quality map to this article, which should be correct (I count the correct number of Liberals, you may have to zoom in to see the small Liverpool Edge Hill constituency which returned a Liberal) however please let me know if you spot any mistakes. Mirrorme22 (talk) 20:55, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

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