1970 Kingdom of Monsters general election (The Kingdom Under the Mountain)

The 1970 Kingdom of Monsters general election was held on Monday Novemeber 2 1970. It resulted in a surprise victory for the The National Party under leader Rudy Carter which defeated the governing Liberal Party under Bailey Graham. The Labour Party, under its new leader Mark Grimond lost 3 seats. The National Party, including the Conservatives, secured a narrow majority of 8 seats.

Most opinion polls prior to the election indicated a narroe Liberal victory, and put Liberal up to 10,1% ahead of the The National Party. On election day, however, a late swing and a scandal about corruption in the Liberal Party gave the The National Party a 20.6% lead and ended six years of Liberal government, although Grimond remained leader of the Liberal Party in opposition. Writing in the aftermath of the election, the political scientist described the The National Party victory as "surprising" and noted a significant shift in votes between the two main parties. The Home Times journalist Abeerdeen Juliet wrote that the election would be "remembered as the occasion when the people of the Kingdom of Monsters hurled the findings of the opinion polls back into the faces of the pollsters".