19 The number of candidates being fielded by the Monster Raving Loony Party at this years election.
49 The number of times Labour use the word 'choice' in their manifesto. Lib Dems 12times, and the Conservatives 18. Tractor appears twice in the Tory manifesto. Both the Tories and Labour use the word matron twice.
40.7% Labour's share of the total number of UK votes in the 2001 general election.
412 The number of parliamentary seats Labour won in the 2001 general election.
36% The percentage of people who chose Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy when asked in a YouGov poll last week who they would rather buy a used car from. Gordon Brown received 20-per cent of the vote, Michael Howard 16-per cent with Tony Blair on 11-per cent.
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