Despite gaining 9 seats the Tories lost 8 behind them to the Liberals Democrats and one even to Labour.

Plaid Cymru gained and lost a seat to Labour respectively.

Following success as the successor to the Whig party, the party's share of the popular vote plummeted after the First World War as it lost votes to the new Labour party and fractured into groups such as the National and Coalition Liberals.

At the 1945 general election, Sinclair and many of his colleagues lost their seats to both Conservatives and Labour, and the party returned just 12 MPs to Westminster.

In 1957 this total fell to five when one of the Liberal MPs died and the subsequent by-election was lost to the Labour Party, which selected the former Liberal Deputy Leader Lady Megan Lloyd George as its own candidate.

At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

The election was a disaster for the Labour Party, which lost over 200 seats.

Labour lost the general election of 1951 to Churchill's renewed Conservatives, despite polling more votes than in the 1945 election and more votes nationwide than the Conservative party.

( Ernest Bevin had died shortly before Labour lost office.

Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

Towards the end of the essay, he wrote: " I do not mean I have lost all faith in the Labour Party.

By this time the " New " Labour Party was seen as a reformed and fresh alternative under the leadership of Tony Blair, and after eighteen years in office the Conservatives lost the 1997 general election in one of the worst electoral defeats since the Great Reform Act of 1832.

Few then were surprised when Major's Conservatives lost the 1 May 1997 general election to Tony Blair's " New Labour ", although the immense scale of the defeat was not as widely predicted: in 1987 and 1992 the Conservatives had polled better than had been suggested by the opinion polls, but in 1997 this was no longer the case.

Such speculation increased after Labour lost the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, in which Peter Tatchell was its candidate, standing against a Tory, a Liberal ( eventual winner Simon Hughes ) and the right wing John O ' Grady, who had declared himself the " real " Labour candidate and fought an openly homophobic campaign against Tatchell.

Foot's Labour Party lost to the Conservatives in a landslide – a result which had been widely predicted by the opinion polls since the previous summer.

Foot took a back seat in Labour politics after 1983 and retired from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election, when Labour lost to the Tories ( now led by John Major ) for the fourth election in succession, but remained politically active.

In early 1987, Labour lost a by-election in Greenwich to the Social Democratic Party's Rosie Barnes.

Labour won extra seats in Scotland, Wales and Northern England, but lost ground particularly in Southern England and London, where the Tories still dominated.

After Labour unexpectedly lost power in 1970 Jenkins was appointed Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer by Harold Wilson.

He lost his seat to Joe Hendron of the Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) in the 1992 general election, regaining it at the following 1997 election.

However, Powell lost his seat in the election by 731 votes to the Social Democratic and Labour Party's Eddie McGrady, mainly due to demographic and boundary changes that resulted in there being many more Irish Nationalists in the constituency than before.

After the Labour Party lost the general election later that year, he was made chairman of Bevan's ' Keep Left ' group, but shortly thereafter he distanced himself from Bevan.

Though they won a narrow majority, it fell short of the 40 per cent required, accelerating the fall of the Labour Government, in May 1979.

The INDUS ( India-US ) Child Labour Project is a US $ 40 million, € 25 million initiative between the ILO-IPEC, Government of India, and the US Department of Labour.

In the following May 2010 UK general election, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, launched in January 2010 and backed by Bob Crow, the leader of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union ( RMT ), other union leaders and the Socialist Party among other socialist groups, stood against Labour in 40 constituencies.

However, employment is no guarantee of escaping poverty, the International Labour Organisation ( ILO ) estimates that as many as 40 % of workers as poor, not earning enough to keep their families above the $ 2 a day poverty line.

Asquith again lost his seat in the 1924 election held after the fall of the Labour government — at which the Liberals were reduced to the status of a minor party with only 40 or so MPs.

The Labour Party currently has an overall majority on the council, holding 40 seats, with the Conservatives holding 11.

* Labour: 40 seats

* Labour: 40

In his speech he told the attenders, " Half of you won't be here in 30 or 40 years ' time ", but that others would have to live with consequences of a Labour government if it stayed in power.

By-elections and defections in 2005 altered the distribution of seats within the council with Labour holding 46 seats, Conservatives holding 40, Liberal Democrats holding 30, the People's Justice Party holding 2 and independent councillors holding a further 2.

Also, Labour endorsed unilateral nuclear disarmament and introduced an electoral college, for leadership elections, with 40 % of the college going to a block vote of the trade unions.

The RSL, about 40 strong, were Labour Party members mainly based in Liverpool, " with small forces in London and in South Wales ".

The Minority argued that this turn from work in the Labour Party was a " threat to 40 years work ", and that " only about 250 " supporters had been expelled, out of a membership which in the late 1980s had numbered 8000.

" With respect to the Labour Party, most of the members of the organisation's executive as well as most of the 40 Labour MPs in Parliament lent their support to the recruiting campaign for the Great War.

In the 2010 General Election, the Conservatives gained the largest share of the region by popular vote and took control of the number of seats, with 40 % of the region's electorate voting Conservative, 31 % Labour and 21 % Liberal Democrat ( very similar to the East Midlands ).

The General Election on 17 September produced a close result, with initial election-night figures from rural areas favoring National ( in accordance with tradition and previous patterns ); but by the end of the evening Labour had won 40. 7 % of the vote to National's 39. 6 %.

This exchange issued " Labour Notes " similar to banknotes, denominated in units of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 40 and 80 hours.

Over the next five years, Tribune was critically involved in every key political event in the life of the Labour government and reached its highest-ever circulation, of some 40, 000.

The uncertainty continued until early December 2008 when it emerged that a 51 % stake was being sold to an unnamed Labour Party activist for £ 1 with an undertaking to support the magazine for £ 40, 000 per annum and debts written off by the now former trade union owners.

In May 2008, following the worst local election performance from the Labour Party in 40 years, the Conservative lead was up to 26 points, the largest since 1968.

Sheehan and the Irish Land and Labour Association secured their demands from the Liberal government elected in 1905 to pass the Labourers ( Ireland ) Act 1906, and the Labourers ( Ireland ) Act 1911, which paid County Councils to build over 40, 000 new rural cottages, each on an acre of land.

Dr. Joseph Kevin McNamara, KSG ( born 5 September 1934 ) is a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for almost 40 years.