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History - Britain, 1905-1951

Can somebody please help me understand this sentence, as I'm not really sure what it means:

"Across Britain the 'swing' to the Liberals was about 10 per cent."

I understand that a 'swing' in politics basically shows the extent of change in voter support, but I don't really understand what the 10 per cent means?

Any help is much appreciated, thank you.
Original post by gaslight182
Can somebody please help me understand this sentence, as I'm not really sure what it means:

"Across Britain the 'swing' to the Liberals was about 10 per cent."

I understand that a 'swing' in politics basically shows the extent of change in voter support, but I don't really understand what the 10 per cent means?

Any help is much appreciated, thank you.

Could it mean that about 10% of the votes moved from other parties to the Liberals? I don't know :colondollar:

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