Britain's Labour Party suffers losses in local polls

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100,000 votes are spoilt due to electronic voting machines

Blair is gone for a reason
Britain's ruling Labour Party suffered marked losses in local and regional elections, the last of the Blair era.

But results Friday showed that the party steered clear of an 'electoral disaster' that had been widely predicted.

Nearly 40 million voters were called to the polls across Britain, except in London, Thursday to choose town and city councils and elect the representatives to the regional parliaments in Scotland and Wales.

The elections, coming in the middle of Labour's third term in national government, were seen widely as a 'final verdict' on the 10-year tenure on Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is due to step down within the next few weeks.
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