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UK Election Results: With 64 seats and counting, Liberal Democrats headed to best results in a century
FirstpostThe Liberal Democrats have gone beyond the exit polls’ predictions of 61 seats and have recorded the all-time highest number of seats The Liberal Democrats have recorded the best electoral performance in a century in the 2024 UK general elections. The exit polls had projected that the Lib Dems will win 61 of the 650 seats in the UK general elections, but the party has gone beyond with 64 seats. The Lib Dems’ Jess Brown-Fuller defeated the Conservative MP and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan in Chichester, a Conservative Party’s stronghold for the past 100 years. — Ed Davey July 4, 2024 The Lib Dems party was formed in 1988 and has consistently come third in the British elections after the Conservatives and the Liberal. In 1988, after the Liberals had long lost popular support, the party joined ranks with Social Democratic Party, a splinter of the Labour Party, to form the Lib Dems party.
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Liberal Democrats win Chichester, a Conservatives stronghold for 100 years
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