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Originally Posted by MTVN
I don't think its that unusual really for a country to have two main parties. It's pretty much always been the way going back to when political parties first formed in a formal sense with the Whigs and the Tories. The Liberals and the Conservatives basically grew out of these and were the two main parties before the birth of the Labour party who steadily displaced the Liberals as the main second party.
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Has there ever been a one party only majority or overwhelming majority in the UK? (ie: One party getting more than half of the seats of the parliament)
Cause technically that´s possible.