Abstract
The results of the 1992 general election in Britain as a whole came as a surprise to many people. Right up to the point on election night when the BBC and ITN had analysed the results of their exit polls, and even after the first results started to come in, commentators confidendy expected that the Conservatives would lose their overall majority in the House of Commons, and suggested that there was a reasonable chance that Labour would be the largest party. On the morning after polling day, indeed, the front page headline of The Times referred to the 'certainty of a hung parliament'. In the event, the Conservatives were returned with a comfortable, although considerably reduced, majority over all other parties.
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