The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" id="mwfQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">British election</a> ended in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_parliament" id="mwfg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hung parliament">hung parliament</a> after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Thorpe" id="mwfw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jeremy Thorpe">Jeremy Thorpe</a>-led <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" id="mwgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a> achieved their biggest vote share since 1929.<sup about="#mwt75" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_28#cite_note-13" id="mwgQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwgg">[13]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"><cite about="#mwt72" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFCook1998">Cook, Chris (1998). <i id="mwBfs">A Short History of the Liberal Party</i>. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press. p.<span id="mwBfw" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>155<span id="mwBf0" typeof="mw:Entity">–</span>156, 246. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBf4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBf8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-333-73516-9" id="mwBgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-333-73516-9"><bdi id="mwBgE">978-0-333-73516-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt72" class="Z3988" id="mwBgI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=A+Short+History+of+the+Liberal+Party&amp;rft.place=Basingstoke&amp;rft.pages=155-156%2C+246&amp;rft.pub=Macmillan+Press&amp;rft.date=1998&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-333-73516-9&amp;rft.aulast=Cook&amp;rft.aufirst=Chris&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+28"></span></span>