An exit poll predicting that Reform UK led by Nigel Farage will get 13 seats in Britain's general election is projected onto BBC Broadcasting House in London on July 4, 2024. Oli Scarff | Afp | Getty Images The scale of the projected Conservative loss stems from smaller parties' gains as ...
With about half of all seats counted, what are the results so far? By SYLVIA HUI Share Votes are counted at Alive Lynnsport in King’s Lynn, in Norfolk, England, during the count for the South West Norfolk constituency in the 2024 General Election, Thursday, July 4, 2024. (Jacob Ki...
General election 2024: Liberal Democrats win 71 seats They took two constituencies of two former Tory Prime Ministers, David Cameron in Witney and Theresa May in Maidenhead. Friday 5 July 2024 19:50, UK This is a modal window. Video Unavailable...
If the predictions are accurate, the election would see the Labour Party suffer its worst defeat since 1983 and the Conservatives win the largest number of seats since 1987. Anthony Wells, director of political and social research at YouGov, said: "If the election were held today, we project...
Sunday 16 June 2024 10:41, UK General Election 2024 Green Party ShareThis is a modal window. Video UnavailableAdrian Ramsay, the co-leader of the Green Party, says his group is setting a target of winning four seats in the general election....
In 1997, after 18 years in opposition and four successive general election defeats, theLabour Party, led byTony Blair, won a landslide victory over theConservatives: Labour won 418 seats and a 179-seat House of Commons majority and reduced the Conservatives to a rump of 165 MPs. Labour went...
of their seats in the House of Commons. In a by-election in the British seaside resort of Blackpool, the Labour Party won the seat from the Conservatives. The 26-percent swing in the voting in Blackpool would point to a landslide for Labour if it was reflected in a general election. ...
Farage has an ax to grind with the Tories. In the 2019 election, his then-Brexit Party agreed not to field candidates in hundreds of seats to safeguard a Conservative win. He has since accused the party of failing the political right, saying Monday that it was time for "revolt." ...
If these boundary changes had been in place at the 2019 general election, the Conservatives would have won six more seats, with Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP each getting two fewer, according to a Financial Times analysis. The Conservatives also introduced the requirement to show identificati...
Menzies’ decision to stay on until the general election means Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has avoided another difficult by-election. His party has lost 10 seats since the 2019 general election. Another contest is taking place on May 2 following the resignation of former Tory MP Scott Benton. ...