 The opposition vote split almost evenly between the Alliance and Labour.With its worst electoral performance since 1918, the Labour vote fell by over 3 million votes from 1979 and this accounted for both a national swing of almost 4% towards the Conservatives and their larger parliamentary majority of 144 seats, even though the Conservatives' total vote fell by almost 700,000.This was the last general election until 2015 in which a governing party increased its number of seats.