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« on: June 10, 2009, 10:35:26 AM »

In 1993, the Canadian Progressive Conservatives lost 149 out of 151 seats in the House of Commons, ending up with two. Percentage-wise, this was more than a 98% loss, which took them from largest parliamentary bloc to virtual non-entity. Has anything comparable ever happened in another democracy?
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« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2009, 10:36:15 AM »

I seem to recall a government party being wiped out entirely in an fptp election in... was that Mauritius? Anyways, a much smaller parliament of course.
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« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2009, 11:11:43 AM »

I seem to recall a government party being wiped out entirely in an fptp election in... was that Mauritius? Anyways, a much smaller parliament of course.

It happened in New Brunswick in 1987. The Conservatives went from 39 seats (forming the government) to 0.
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« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2009, 11:27:19 AM »

I'm not aware of anything on the PC level.
Worst Irish collapse:

Irish Parliamentary Party
ElectionSeatsVotes
19107490,416
19187226,498

The votes tally is grossly misleading though as many of the 1910 victories were uncontested.
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« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2009, 11:48:10 AM »

UK Conservatives went from 343 notional seats to 165 actual seats in 1997
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« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2009, 02:26:37 PM »

I know of a couple that is not as bad might somewhat close.

1993 France. Left Alliance went from 303 out of 575 in 1988 to 91 out of 577 in 1993.
1977 India.  INC(I) went from 352 out of 545 to 154 out of 545
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« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2009, 03:05:34 PM »

2 near examples of bad results,in both cases the government had resigned not long before election to be replaced by caretaker/colaition ones(UK examples):
1906:Conservatives reduced from 402 to 157 seats and 1929:Labour reduced from 288 to 52 seats!
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« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2009, 03:23:52 PM »

I seem to recall a government party being wiped out entirely in an fptp election in... was that Mauritius? Anyways, a much smaller parliament of course.

It happened in New Brunswick in 1987. The Conservatives went from 39 seats (forming the government) to 0.

Canada does this a lot. The NDP in British Columbia dropped from 39 seats and forming the government to just two seats in the 2001 election. The PEI Conservatives dropped from 18 seats and government to zero seats in 1935.
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« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2009, 03:54:00 PM »
« Edited: June 12, 2009, 06:55:31 AM by freek »

The worst collapses in Dutch history I can think of are PvdA in 2002 (from 45 to 23),
CDA in 1994 (from 54 to 34) and Pim Fortuyn List in 2003 (from 26 to 8 ).


edit: I accidentally created a smiley. Corrected with an extra space.
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« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2009, 04:10:25 PM »

The Iran Participation Front went from over 100 seats in the 2000-2004 Majlis to zero in the 2004-2008 one. But that was largely the fault of the Council of Guardians not the voters. They would have done badly regardless though
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« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2009, 01:08:52 PM »

2 near examples of bad results,in both cases the government had resigned not long before election to be replaced by caretaker/colaition ones(UK examples):
1906:Conservatives reduced from 402 to 157 seats and 1929:Labour reduced from 288 to 52 seats!

the second example should be 1931 not 1929.sorry!
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