TEHRAN, Dec. 13 (MNA) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's ruling Conservative Party won a huge majority in the parliamentary election, according to exit polls. By early Friday morning, the Conservatives had secured 358 of the 650 seats in the House of Parliament, well ahead of Labour'...
LONDON — The U.K.'s Labour Party won a huge parliamentary majority in the country's general election, but a quirk of the British electoral system means it did so with just 34% of the total votes cast. Results show that the opposition Labour Party has won 412 parliamentary seats of...
The result comes amid asurprisingly strong election performanceby Reform UK, which has a hardline stance on immigration and was born out of the Brexit Party. Exit polls indicate that the party could secure 13 parliamentary seats, having failed to win any in the 2019 election. Read more her...
Across England, Reform proved it can translate positive polling into real power, picking up another parliamentary seat, a mayoralty, Staffordshire and Lincolnshire councils and dozens of seats by lunchtime. The popularity surge for this anti-establishment party is real. Look at the votes:...
This was a long-shot, however, and as predicted in the polls, Labour won the 2024 general election by a landslide, winning 412 out of 650 seats. The sting in the tale for the Labour Party was that despite this large majority, they won a relatively low share of the votes and almost ...
Parliamentary constituencies that cross council boundaries where all or only some electors had a local vote in 2025 are excluded from this analysis. Combining these separate analyses acknowledges that the choices available to voters in local elections are, in some areas, different to...
In April, Johnson became the first sitting prime minister to be sanctioned by police, receiving a fine for attending a party that broke his own COVID-19 laws. The police probe into the parties has ended but Johnson still faces a parliamentary investigation into whether he ...
Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives risk losing a second British parliamentary seat to the anti-EU UKIP party on Thursday, foreshadowing a possible political upheaval in next year's national election. With distrust of mainstream parties and anxiety about immigration rising among voters across ...
OFSI investigations:response to parliamentary question On 17 January 2025, Mark Garnier (Conservative MP) tabled the following parliamentary question to the Chancellor of the Exchequer: "…how many investigations by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation into breaches of Russian sanctions (a)...
When May called the election in April, her Conservative party showed a clear lead in opinion polls. Many indicators suggested that the party could increase their 17-seat parliamentary majority by more than 100 seats while Corbyn's Labour party looked on course to suffer a miserable defeat. ...