The county set
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THE Liberal Democrats have staged a strong recovery in The Economist's latest quarterly survey of local by-election results. They polled 31% of the votes cast in January-March 1997, the first time they have exceeded 30% of the vote in 2 1/2 years (see chart).
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The county set”
From the April 5th 1997 edition
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