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Perhaps the two strangest elections occurred to fill vacancies among the Labour and Lib Dem hereditaries. In 2005 there was a 100 per cent turnout by the Lib Dem electorate of four to replace the late Earl Russell. All four votes went to the Earl of Glasgow, a percentage Stalin would have envied. In 2003 an even smaller electorate—three—voted in the replacement poll to replace the deceased Labour peer Lord Milner. Lord Grantchester squeaked in, recording two votes to Viscount Hanworth's one. P.G. Wodehouse's Lord Emsworth might be a decent bet the next time their lordships are summoned to vote.

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