Below is the actual votes for New Labour over the past 4 elections. While most commentators have (rightly) concentrated on the swing seats and the election battlegrounds. Perhaps a more pertinent question should be why have New Labour dropped 4 million votes between 1997 and 2005?
| New Labour | Lib Dem | |
| May 2005 | 9,566,618 | 5,981,874 |
| June 2001 | 10,724,895 | 4,814,321 |
| May 1997 | 13,518,167 | 5,242,947 |
| April 1992 | 11,560,484 | 5,999,384 |
I have included the Lib Dems as a contrast, as many people last time around said that they attracted more votes from Labour voters in 2005. If they did, and this may have taken them to just short of their record haul of votes, this still begs the question of where the other 3 million or so votes have gone.
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