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Some analysts and commentators have suggested the gap between the newspapers' strong support, and the public's marginal support, for the Conservatives in this election indicates a decline in the influence of print media, and/or that in 2017's election social media played a decisive role (perhaps being the first election in which this was the ...
Elections are held on Election Day, which is conventionally a Thursday. Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, all five types of elections are held after fixed periods, though early elections to the UK parliament occurred in both 2017 and 2019. [1] [2] After winning the 2019 election, the Conservative Party committed to repealing the FTPA. [3]
Cable succeeded Farron as party leader on 20 July 2017. UKIP saw their share of the vote collapse to almost negligible levels. They failed to gain any new seats and their one success from 2015, Clacton, returned to Conservative control. [4] Paul Nuttall resigned as party leader on 9 June 2017 after finishing in third place at Boston and ...
19 April – The House of Commons formally approves the calling of an early general election with the necessary two-thirds majority in a 522 to 13 vote. [22] 20 April – The 2017 Manchester Gorton by-election is cancelled following the announcement of an impending general election. This was the first time a UK by-election had been cancelled ...
Change in vote share, by default order of total seats won in 2017 Party % votes won in 2015 % votes won in 2017 ∆% (i.e. change) Conservative Party
In 2017, the journalist John Rentoul writing in The Independent newspaper argued that the Fixed-term Parliaments Act indirectly caused the election loss of Theresa May's majority in the 2017 election. Technicalities made her choose an election campaign of seven weeks, 2–3 weeks longer than usual, which, Rentoul argued, lost her the majority.
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List of MPs elected in the 2017 United Kingdom general election; 2017 Caymanian general election; 2017 Bermudian general election; 2017 Falkland Islands general election; 2017 Saint Helena general election; 2017 United Kingdom local elections. 2017 Greater Manchester mayoral election; 2017 Northamptonshire County Council election