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Share of party vote going west? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dollop

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'share' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how they can define each other.

'party vote going west?' is the wordplay.
'party' becomes 'do' (do is a kind of party).
'vote' becomes 'poll' (polling is a kind of voting).
'going west?' says the letters should be written backwards.
'poll' in reverse letter order is 'llop'.
'do'+'llop'='DOLLOP'

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for dollop that I've seen before include "Quality of eg cream" , "Large spoonful" , "Large shapeless lump" , "Semisolid lump" , "great lump" .)

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