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electoral majority. Both added a “new” name to their Party’s title: Clinton was styled a “new Democrat,” and Blair calls his party “new Labour.” Both formulas worked at the polls, to bring Clinton in 1992 and Blair in 1997 a victory over the incumbent in a three-way race, with slightly less than forty-five per cent of the nationwide popular vote.
Blair’s victory was the more decisive. Clinton’s electoral college margin was solid, but not like F.D.R.’s or Lyndon Johnson’s. Blair’s “new Labour” Party won the highest number of parliamentary seats in the Labour Part’s history, and reduced the Tory opposition to its lowest percentage of the vote since 1832. Of the 659 seats in the House of Commons, Labour
96.6%