UK general election 2024: live results in full as Labour takes power
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With more than half of the 650 seats declared, Keir Starmer will be the new prime minister as the Labour party secures a majority. Follow the final results and find out how your constituency voted.

The Labour party has won a majority of seats in the 2024 UK General Elections, and Keir Starmer is expected to replace Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. The Conservatives, in power for the last fourteen years, have suffered a rout, losing over two-thirds of their seats.

    • atro_city@fedia.io
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      10 months ago

      The US is going to have Trump. Biden is too senile to be president again and people know it. That last debate probably demotivated many people to even go vote and they won’t be voting for alternative candidates.

      Maybe that’ll teach people to vote for independents and the DNC to stop propping up geriatrics.

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Are they still called bank holidays or do they have another name?

        Have you heard Trump?

        “Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”

    • r00ty@kbin.life
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      10 months ago

      I think it’s important to note that the primary reason the conservative party lost many of their seats is because their vote was split between them, and an even more right wing party led by Nigel Farage. It wasn’t because of a huge shift to the left (or at least the centre left position the labour party occupy right now).

      In my constituency for example, if you put the conservative + reform votes together, they would have beaten the nearest competitor by a country mile.

      • jimmy90@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        i think the primary reason was that the tories were a tragic, worthless mess and the reform racists were there to pick up the protest vote and the lib dems, the others. the low turn out were the tories that couldn’t even be bothered.

        i see the republicans in a very similar situation

        • r00ty@kbin.life
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          10 months ago

          That’s what I originally thought would be the case. But, just statistically (looking at voter share here):

          2019: Cons: 43.6% Lab: 32.1% LD: 11.6% SNP: 3.9%
          2024: Lab: 33.7% Cons: 23.7% Reform: 14.3% LD: 12.2% (Weirdly, wikipedia has yet to include reform in their share ranking had to use BBC)

          Labour picked up less than 2% more of the vote share. Reform took the vast majority of the tory lead away.

          Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad the tories are out. But, it’s mostly because reform split the vote and Labour were second place in most constituencies. This is important to bear in mind while the conservatives sort themselves out to decide how they deal with not being right wing enough…

          • frazorth@feddit.uk
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            10 months ago

            By that statement though, the LibDems split the left vote and so if your going to compare, you’ll need to add the liberal vote to the Labour as that’s where they would go if LibDems disappeared.

            • r00ty@kbin.life
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              10 months ago

              You could be right, but I am not so sure.

              In terms of percentage, the lib dems made a smaller gain than labour. I’d also suggest that while maybe some of those votes came from wavering labour voters, I expect that at least a similar number would have also come from the tories. I don’t think the lib dems split the vote any more than they normally do.

              Reform, while not new, last time round they did not compete against the tories. This time, they did and the result is clear.