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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 .
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 ...
The Conservative Party under Boris Johnson won a large majority at the 2019 general election and the new government passed the Brexit withdrawal agreement. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The COVID-19 pandemic saw the government institute extensive public health restrictions , including limitations on social interaction, that Johnson and some of his staff were ...
LONDON (Reuters) -Keir Starmer vowed to rebuild Britain as its next prime minister after his Labour Party on Friday surged to a landslide victory in a parliamentary election, ending 14 years of ...
The Labour Party won the majority of seats in England for the first time since 2005, with a net gain of 166 seats for a total of 348. Labour won the most seats in every region of England for the first time, Labour also won the most votes in all but two regions, coming second behind the Conservatives in South East England and third behind the ...
1.4 724,758 2.52 1.3 Independents — 459 6 6 0 6 0.9 564,243 1.96 1.4 Sinn Féin: Mary Lou McDonald: 14 7 0 0 1.1 210,891 0.73 0.1 Workers Party: George Galloway: 152 0 New 0.0 210,194 0.73 New Plaid Cymru: Rhun ap Iorwerth: 32 4 2 0 2 0.6 194,811 0.68 0.2 Democratic Unionist: Gavin Robinson: 16 5 0 3 3 0.8 172,058 0.60 0.2 Alliance
Current [2] Difference Labour [a] 411 [b] 404 7 Conservative: 121 121 Liberal Democrats: 72 72 Independent: 6 13 [c] 7 SNP: 9 9 Sinn Féin: 7 7 DUP: 5 5 Reform UK: 5 5 Green (E&W) 4 4 Plaid Cymru: 4 4 SDLP: 2 2 Alliance: 1 1 TUV: 1 1 UUP: 1 1 Speaker: 1 1 Vacant: 0 0 Total 650 650 Total voting [d] 639 639 Majority of voting 181 165 [6
The largest majority received by an individual is also Sir Cooper Rawson, re-elected with a majority of 62,253 (35.2% of votes) at Brighton in 1931. [1]: 101 The largest majority received by a woman is 38,823 (71.4% of votes) by the Countess of Iveagh elected MP for Southend in 1931.