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Anant Ambani
personAnant Ambani and Radhika Merchant's sangeet ceremony turned out to be a star-studded affair. Justin Bieber who is known for chartbusters such as "Baby", "Sorry", "Love Yourself", and "Boyfriend", flew in from Los Angeles to perform.
Saeed Jalili
personMasoud Pezeshkian secured 53.7 percent of the votes, or 16.3m, according to the official count. Saeed Jalili received 44.3 percent, or 13.5m, the Interior Ministry said. The first round of voting June 28 saw the lowest turnout in the history of the Islamic Republic since 1979.
Masoud Pezeshkian
personReformist Masoud Pezeshkian, 69, won around 53.6 percent of the vote in runoff elections. He will replace late ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi who died in a May helicopter crash. Turnout was 49.8%, up from 40% in the initial election and at the high end of speculation.
The House of Commons
organizationSNP has lost 38 of 47 seats in the House of Commons, mostly to Labour. It's their lowest number of seats at Westminster since 2010. Sinn Fein became Northern Ireland's largest party at Westminster level. 12 senior Conservatives ministers lost their seats at the election.
Keir Starmer
personLabour won 12,877,918 votes, but only 262 seats, losing to the Conservatives. Every seat in Glasgow and North and South Lanarkshire was won back from the SNP. Only the Lib Dems prevented a Labour clean sweep by holding Edinburgh West.
The House of Commons
organizationLabour will have 412 MPs in House of Commons after landslide victory. Tories will have just 121 MPs after their worst ever election defeat. Lib Dems have won more seats than at any election since 1988. SNP will return just nine MPs after losing dozens of seats.
Tories
organizationTories wiped out in Greater Manchester after losing Altrincham and Sale West for the first time in nearly 100 years. Reform UK came second, pushing the Conservatives into third in huge swathes of the country. Tories expected to return just 131 MPs - a fraction of their 365 in 2019.
Reform UK
organizationReform UK won four parliamentary seats in Thursday's general election. Leader Nigel Farage was elected on his eighth attempt by standing in Clacton-on-Sea. Lee Anderson became the party's first MP of the night with victory in Ashfield.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.