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As largely expected, the Brexit Party failed to win any seats in the general election. [7] Among its results the best were in Barnsley Central , where Victoria Felton came second with 30.4% of the vote; [ 8 ] Hartlepool , where party chairman Richard Tice came third with 25.8% of the vote; [ 9 ] and Hull West and Hessle , where businesswoman ...
Part of a series of articles on Brexit Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union Glossary of terms Background European Communities Act 1975 EC membership referendum UK rebate Bruges speech No. No. No. Maastricht Rebels Black Wednesday European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 European Union Act 2011 UK opt-outs from EU legislation Euroscepticism in the UK UK opinion polling on EU ...
Nigel Farage has lost the rights to the Brexit Party name in an apparent admin slip – the party he led to victory in the last ever European elections in the UK, effectively took out Theresa May ...
Brexit was the central issue of the election campaign; [7] arguments were made that it was a proxy for a second Brexit referendum. [8] [9] The election was won by the Brexit Party, which won the most votes and became the largest single national party in the European Parliament, being the dominant choice of those who had voted to leave the ...
At the last general election in 2019, Farage's party decided not to contest seats held by the Conservatives, then led by Boris Johnson, to avoid splitting the pro-Brexit vote.
General elections in the United Kingdom are organised using first-past-the-post voting. The Conservative Party, which won a majority at the 2019 general election, included pledges in its manifesto to remove the 15-year limit on voting for British citizens living abroad, and to introduce a voter identification requirement in Great Britain. [86]
Britain will hold its first December election in almost a century after Prime Minister Boris Johnson won approval from parliament on Tuesday for an early ballot aimed at breaking the Brexit deadlock.
Swing between the largest party at the previous election and the largest party at the next, or the second-largest party if there was no change. 2019 election (PR) – 27.0% swing from UKIP to Brexit 1; 1999 election (PR) – 11.5% swing from Labour to Conservative 2; 2014 election (PR) – 7.5% swing from Conservative to UKIP