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[10] [11] A YouGov poll conducted four weeks before the vote suggested that Labour was on course for the party's biggest election victory in history, beating Blair's 1997 landslide. The poll indicated Labour could win 422 seats, while the Conservatives were projected to win 140 seats.
Both Reform UK and the Green Party also gained from the Conservatives. Liz Truss lost her own seat of South West Norfolk to Labour. [6] The only Conservative gain in England was Leicester East, where a split Labour vote between the official labour candidate and former Labour MPs Claudia Webbe and Keith Vaz depressed the Labour vote. [7]
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Labour: Keir Starmer: 33.7 411 +209 Conservative: Rishi Sunak: 23.7 121 −244 Liberal Democrats: Ed Davey: 12.2 72 +61 SNP
The vote breakdown made clear that the election was as much, if not more, about the public’s anger towards the Conservatives as it was about excitement for Labour’s offer. Starmer’s party ...
2024 was a historic year for Labour. Under Sir Keir Starmer the party came to power in July for the first time in over a decade, winning with a massive number of seats. It was a short election ...
Shares of the vote in general elections since 1832 received by Conservatives [note 1] (blue), Liberals/Liberal Democrats [note 2] (orange), Labour (red) and others (grey) [1] [2] [3] In 1801, the right to vote in the United Kingdom was severely restricted.
When Harold Wilson’s Labour government lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 in 1969, the UK became the first major democratic country to do so. And although the topic has come up at various ...
The party traditionally holds the annual Labour Party Conference during party conference season, at which debates and voting take place, and senior Labour figures promote party policy. The Labour Party was founded in 1900, having emerged from the trade union movement and socialist parties of the 19th century .