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For 12-hour time, the point format (for example "1.45 p.m.") is in common usage and has been recommended by some style guides, including the academic manual published by Oxford University Press under various titles, [8] as well as the internal house style book for the University of Oxford, [9] that of The Guardian [10] and The Times newspapers ...
A negative majority means that there was a hung parliament (or minority government) following that election. For example, at the 1929 general election, Labour was 42 seats short of forming a majority, and so its majority is listed as −42. If the party in office changed the figure is re-calculated, but no allowance is made for changes after ...
Less than two months after the 2019 general election, cases of COVID-19 had reached the UK, and Boris Johnson himself was hospitalised with the disease in March 2020. [1] The government responded to the pandemic in March 2020 by enacting emergency powers and widespread societal measures including several lockdowns , and approved a vaccination ...
Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour Party leader in a 2015 leadership election, succeeding Ed Miliband after he resigned following the party's defeat at the general election that year, and re-elected leader in 2016 following a challenge from Owen Smith.
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Turnout in UK general elections fell from 77% in 1992, and 71% in 1997, to a historic low of 59% in 2001. It has, however, increased, to 61% in 2005, 65% in 2010, 66% in 2015 and 69% in 2017. [156] Turnout has fallen since, to 67% in 2019 and to 59% in 2024. In other elections, turnout trends have been more varied.
There are 14 days to go until the General Election gives voters the opportunity to influence how the country will be run.