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The final result of the election on 2 May 1997 revealed that Labour had won a landslide majority, making a net gain of 146 seats and winning 43.2% of the vote. 150 Members of Parliament, including 133 Conservatives, lost their seats. The Conservatives, meanwhile, suffered defeat with a net loss of 178 seats, winning 30.7% of the vote.
Projections four weeks before the vote indicated a landslide victory for Labour that surpassed the one achieved by Tony Blair at the 1997 general election, while comparisons were made in the media to the 1993 Canadian federal election due to the prospect of a potential Conservative wipeout.
In the United Kingdom, general elections occur at least every five years. About 650 constituencies return a member of Parliament.Prior to 1945, electoral competition in the United Kingdom exhibited features which make meaningful comparisons with modern results difficult.
Polling stations across the UK close. An exit poll is published, predicting a Labour landslide with the party on course for 410 seats and the number of Conservative MPs reduced to a record low of 131.
In 2024, the Labour party won in a landslide, winning more than 400 constituencies, the Conservatives won more than 110 and the Liberal Democrats won at least 70. (Joe Murphy and Jiachuan Wu / NBC ...
The Labour Party’s resounding victory in the UK general election marks a historic moment in modern British political history and a huge personal triumph for Keir Starmer, the Labour leader who ...
Under Tony Blair, the Labour Party won a landslide majority of English seats, the first time since 1966 that Labour had won an overall majority of English seats. [2] The England result, together with even larger landslide Labour results in Scotland and Wales, gave Labour the biggest majority for any single party since 1931. Blair subsequently ...
Westminster elections are held under the first-past-the-post system.