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The Conservative Party
organizationOutgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has conceded the election. Labour has won 65 percent of the vote, but only 34 percent of seats in the House of Commons. Conservative Party has won 24 percent of votes, but 121 seats, a huge difference. Turnout was 43.17%.
The Labour Party
organizationLabour saw its vote decline by an average of 11 per cent in constituencies with at least a ten per cent Muslim population. Voter turnout for the 2024 General Election could be the lowest since 1945.
Cabinet
organizationTories set to fall well below their previous low of 156 MPs set in 1906. Reform received more than four million votes, around 600,000 more than the Liberal Democrats.
Labour Party
organizationLabour secured 412 (+211) seats in the 650-seat House of Commons. Outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party down to 121 (-250) seats. Scottish National Party woke up to bad news on Friday, winning just nine seats.
Liz Truss
personLiz Truss has lost her safe seat in the General Election. Labour's Terry Jermy overturned a huge majority of 26,195. It ends 14 years in the seat for Truss and sees the Tories lose a seat they have held since 1964.
Labour
organizationLabour won 12,877,918 votes, but only 262 seats, losing to the Conservatives. This was the second worst score for any winner of either party in the post-war era. Several Labour candidates lost to independents campaigning on a pro-Palestine platform.
Rishi Sunak
personRishi Sunak led the Conservatives to their worst-ever election result. Penny Mordaunt, Grant Shapps, David TC Davies, Mark Harper, Victoria Prentis and Johnny Mercer all lost to Labour. Liz Truss and a record 11 Cabinet ministers lose their seats.
Nigel Farage
personFarage overturned a Conservative majority of 24,702 to win the Clacton seat. He was elected with 46.07% of the vote. Lee Anderson, Richard Tice and Rupert Lowe also won seats in parliament.
Penny Mordaunt
personSeven whips were kicked out by voters in an unprecedented turnarond by Labour. Liz Truss, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Grant Shapps, Penny Mordaunt and Therese Coffey are gone.
Grant Shapps
personEight cabinet ministers lost their seats, surpassing the previous record of seven in 1997. But several big beasts of the party have held onto their seats. Greens have enjoyed a bumper night winning five seats, adding four to their tally from 2019.
Labour
organizationLabour on course for historic super-majority of 410 seats. Tories will be reduced to 131 in their worst ever result. SNP will return just nine MPs after losing dozens of seats.
SNP
organizationSNP lost dozens of lawmakers as it headed for its worst result since 2010. Scottish Labour overturned almost a decade of SNP dominance in Scotland's Westminster seats. First Minister John Swinney pledged a period of ‘soul searching’
Keir Starmer
personLabour wins 326 out of the total 650 seats in the general election. Party takes four in five capital seats, beating Tony Blair’s record 1997 haul. First Labour government since Gordon Brown was elected as prime minister in 2007.
The Labour Party
organizationLabour on course for one of the biggest Commons majorities in history. Tories set to fall to 131 seats, down from 365 five years ago. Reform UK, led by populist Nigel Farage, expected to win 13 seats.
Labour
organizationMumsnet exit poll of over 4,000 users sees Sir Keir Starmer's party predicted for 49% of the votes and Ed Davey's crew second with 17% UK general election 2024 LIVE. Labour is on course to take 410 of the 650 available seats, a majority of 170. Conservatives are expected to win just 131 seats, with the Lib Dems on 61 and Reform UK on 13.
Labour Party
organizationRishi Sunak's party forecast to only take 131 seats, down from 346 when parliament was dissolved. Voters punish Conservatives for cost-of-living crisis and years of instability. Liberal Democrats could have as many as 61 representatives on the benches.
Keir Starmer
personSurvey shows Sir Keir Starmer winning 410 of the 650 seats. Would be more than Tony Blair in 1997. Tories expected to be slashed from 365 to just 131 seats. Lib Dems could get 61 and Nigel Farage's Reform insurgents predicted to have 13.
Gavin Plumb
personGavin Plumb, 37, of Harlow, Essex, found guilty of soliciting murder and inciting rape and kidnap. Security guard had already purchased a "kidnap kit" with shackles and chloroform. Plumb tried to kidnap two air hostesses off a train in 2006 and in 2008 he attempted to falsely imprison two 16-year-old girls.
The Labour Party
organizationUK election exit poll forecasts Labour majority of 170. Keir Starmer predicted to be Britain's next prime minister. Conservatives forecast to win fewest seats in party's history.
Rebecca Joynes
personRebecca Joynes, 30, of Thingwall, Wirral, groomed the youngsters from the age of 15. She fell pregnant by a 16-year-old pupil while on bail for having an inappropriate relationship with another. Judge berated her for 'exploiting' her job for'sexual gratification' Bodycam footage of her arrest shows her looking gobsmacked.