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Decision '79 - Part 1

22:55-04:30. Callaghan or Thatcher? The polling booths have closed. The count is under way. The candidates prepare themselves for victory, or defeat. In the Results Studio, David Dimbleby and Robin Day welcome you to a night of political drama as your votes add up to the kind of government you have chosen for the eighties. The questions of the night: - Is it to be Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister? - Will James Callaghan be returned in triumph to No 10? - Was Edge Hill the start of a Liberal revival for David Steel ? - What of the Nationalists, how big is their following now? - And, of course, who is to be your MP at Westminster? Bringing you the answers, Robert McKenzie and David Butler with Election Summaries every hour on the hour from Angela Rippon.

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