Why couldnt the tories win back lib dem seats in the south west.

[Peter]

Cornwall is solidly Lib Dem now - no use pretending otherwise. Places like Yeovil and other Somerset/Devon seats are also trending that way, though there is a little room for the Tories to gain a few back in the future.

Importantly, Lib Dem strengths seem to be in student seats now, though interestingly they lost ground in Oxford West.

[Peter]

I notice they won seats in mancester, leeds, bristol nad cardiff

That Manchester seat must be some sort of record, the other three were somewhat expected. They also took Cambridge, got close in City of Durham, Edinburgh North and South. Clearly they must now tool themselves ideologically to fight these sort of seats in the future since they will now lose ground trying to fight the Tories I feel.