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This infobox should help to put Damian Guevara's election in 1978 in a clearer light: the reason the Coalition felt so threatened by him that they pull out all the old tricks from Holcomb's first cabinet is because Guevara actually got more votes that the CPP did in 1945 as a percentage of ballots cast. The Coalition can win some districts with 80 or 90% of the vote, but if Guevara cracked 30% nationally he'd have potentially won a dozen suburban seats and helped a few non-leftist independents over the hump. It didn't help that it was a jarring slump after the high that had been the near-sweep in 1974.

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