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The East of England elected 61 MPs, 3 more than the 58 elected in 2019 general election. [9] The election was fought under the boundaries created by the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies. [3] In the 2019 general election, the Conservatives won 52 seats in the region. [10] Labour won 5 and the Liberal Democrats won 1 seat . [11]
The election was the first general election victory for Labour since 2005, and ended the Conservatives' 14-year tenure as the primary governing party. Labour achieved a 174-seat simple majority, and a total of 411 seats, a single-party figure surpassed in modern times only by Stanley Baldwin and the Conservatives in 1924 and by Tony Blair and ...
Labour: Caroline Ansell [8] Eastbourne: 2019: 2019: Josh Babarinde: Liberal Democrats: Sarah Atherton [9] Wrexham: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence People, Veterans and Service Families (2022) 2019: 2019 Andrew Ranger: Labour: Shaun Bailey [10] Tipton and Wednesbury [n 3] 2019: 2019 Antonia Bance: Labour: Siobhan Baillie [11 ...
However, after winning the 1950 general election, Labour would lose the following election in 1951 to the Conservatives despite gaining the highest share of votes to date at 48.8%. [224] During the 1983 election, Labour posted their worst vote share in the post-war period at 27.6%. [224] In 1997, a party record of 418 Labour MPs were elected. [224]
The Labour Party formed a majority government under the leadership of Keir Starmer, winning over 400 seats. Other parties including the Liberal Democrats , Reform UK and the Green Party saw an increase in their seat share in the House of Commons at expense of the Conservatives and the Scottish National Party .
However, after winning the 1950 general election, Labour would lose the following election in 1951 to the Conservatives despite gaining their highest share of votes to date at 48.8%. [9] During the 1983 election, Labour posted their worst vote share in the post-war period at 27.6%. [9] In 1997, a party record of 418 Labour MPs were elected. [9]
Labour returned to being the largest party in Scotland and remained so in Wales. The Conservatives won no seats in Wales and only one seat in North East England. [3] The election was noted as the most disproportionate in modern British history, [5] mainly as a result of the first-past-the-post voting system.
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.