How Labour beat the Conservatives in Britain after 14 years, by the numbers
5 months, 2 weeks ago

How Labour beat the Conservatives in Britain after 14 years, by the numbers

Associated Press  

LONDON — Great Britain’s Labour Party has defeated the Conservatives in a historic parliamentary election for control of the nation’s government. With most votes counted, here’s a breakdown of the numbers: 412 seats Labour has won 412 seats — a 63% majority — of the 650 seats in the lower house of Parliament. 60% support for the two major political parties Labour and Conservative candidates were barely able to muster 60% of votes cast in this election, marking a new low. For the past 100 years, Britain’s two main political parties have garnered the vast majority of votes.

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4 candidates to lead Britain's defeated Conservatives bash Labour, and each other
2 months, 3 weeks ago

4 candidates to lead Britain's defeated Conservatives bash Labour, and each other

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick, ex-Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch, former Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and …

2024 United Kingdom elections: Let's take a moment to appreciate the spectacular defeat of the U.K.'s Conservative Party.
5 months ago

2024 United Kingdom elections: Let's take a moment to appreciate the spectacular defeat of the U.K.'s Conservative Party.

Slate  

Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party suffered a monumental, era-defining defeat at Thursday’s general election. They hold just 121 seats, having lost 252 since the last general election, compared with Labour’s whopping 412. It remains to be seen just how different Britain will look under Keir Starmer’s Labour, who are a long, long way from the radical-left ideology the party stood for …

What we learned from the UK’s general election that will shape politics over the coming years
5 months, 2 weeks ago

What we learned from the UK’s general election that will shape politics over the coming years

Associated Press  

LONDON — The U.K. has its first change in government in 14 years after the Labour Party won a landslide victory in a general election Friday that saw the Conservative Party suffer its biggest defeat ever. Here are some things we learned: A fraying two-party system For the past 100 years, Britain’s two main political parties have garnered the vast …

Don't be fooled by Labour's big UK win: British politics is melting down
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Don't be fooled by Labour's big UK win: British politics is melting down

Salon  

It’s too early to draw clear conclusions about the meaning of Thursday’s dramatic national election in the U.K., and still less about what lessons it might offer to America's feeble attempt to preserve democracy. But one thing is clear enough: Headlines around the world announcing that Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has won a huge victory are factually accurate yet fail …

General Election in numbers: Records broken and historic milestones
5 months, 2 weeks ago

General Election in numbers: Records broken and historic milestones

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. – Labour wins third largest majority for a single party since 1900 Labour’s majority …

The 2024 general election in numbers: From history-making results to huge vote swings
5 months, 2 weeks ago

The 2024 general election in numbers: From history-making results to huge vote swings

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Labour gained 211 seats – but just 1.6 per cent …

What we learned from the UK’s general election that will shape politics over the coming years
5 months, 2 weeks ago

What we learned from the UK’s general election that will shape politics over the coming years

Associated Press  

LONDON — The U.K. has its first change in government in 14 years after the Labour Party won a landslide victory early Friday in a general election that saw the Conservative Party suffer its biggest defeat ever. Here are some things we learned: A fraying two-party system For the past 100 years, Britain’s two main political parties have garnered the …

What we learned from the UK's general election that will shape politics over the coming years
5 months, 2 weeks ago

What we learned from the UK's general election that will shape politics over the coming years

The Independent  

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UK Election Results 2024 | Labour Party Sweeps To Power Under Keir Starmer In Historic Win
5 months, 2 weeks ago

UK Election Results 2024 | Labour Party Sweeps To Power Under Keir Starmer In Historic Win

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 05, 2024 16:24 IST - 7 MINS READ Keir Starmer’s Labour won a landslide victory in the UK general election after Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives imploded, a result that dramatically reshapes the political landscape while still falling short of a ringing endorsement of the party’s plan for government. UK sees major political restructuring In the campaign, Labour was …

Labour Party Wins U.K. General Election In Landslide, Ending 14 Years Of Conservative Rule
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Labour Party Wins U.K. General Election In Landslide, Ending 14 Years Of Conservative Rule

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The center-left Labour Party won Thursday’s U.K. general election, ending the Conservative Party’s 14-year rule in Britain. This will take a while, but have no doubt that the work of change begins immediately.” Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks to supporters at a watch party for the results of the U.K. general election in central London, on July …

Conservatives win 1st seat as Labour's tally rises to 15, here's the full list
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Conservatives win 1st seat as Labour's tally rises to 15, here's the full list

Firstpost  

The Conservative Party of Rishi Sunak is headed to a rout as the Labour Party under Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership is set to have a landslide victory In what could only be a consolation prize, the Conservative Party has won the first seat as the 2024 election results are trickling in. The Sir Keir Starmer-led Labour Party is headed to …

UK election results 2024: Why do some popular parties win so few seats?
5 months, 2 weeks ago

UK election results 2024: Why do some popular parties win so few seats?

Al Jazeera  

Reform UK has won just four seats with 14 percent of the vote, while Conservatives got 121 seats on 24 percent – why? Conversely, Reform UK, the far-right party campaigning on issues such as immigration, has received 14 percent of the votes so far, but only four seats, or 0.6 percent of the total. Labour Party: 35 percent vote share, …

UK elections 2024: Labour hopes for historic win as British voters go to polls
5 months, 2 weeks ago

UK elections 2024: Labour hopes for historic win as British voters go to polls

Hindustan Times  

Britain voted Thursday in a general election that polls predict will hand the opposition Labour party a landslide win and end nearly a decade-and-a-half of Conservative rule. Britain's Conservative Party all-but conceded election defeat to Keir Starmer's Labour on Wednesday, a day before polling stations even opened, and warned that the opposition party was on course for a record-breaking victory. …

UK Election 2024 Highlights: ‘Labour Party set for landslide win’
5 months, 2 weeks ago

UK Election 2024 Highlights: ‘Labour Party set for landslide win’

Hindustan Times  

An exit poll suggests the Labour Party is headed for a huge majority in Britain's election, ending 14 years of Conservative rule. UK Election 2024 Live Highlights: Keir Starmer is set to become Britain's next prime minister, with Labour expected to win a large majority in the parliamentary election, according to an exit poll on Thursday. On the final day …

UK Election 2024 Highlights: ‘Labour Party set for landslide win’
5 months, 2 weeks ago

UK Election 2024 Highlights: ‘Labour Party set for landslide win’

Hindustan Times  

An exit poll suggests the Labour Party is headed for a huge majority in Britain's election, ending 14 years of Conservative rule. UK Election 2024 Live Highlights: Keir Starmer is set to become Britain's next prime minister, with Labour expected to win a large majority in the parliamentary election, according to an exit poll on Thursday. On the final day …

Labor Party on track for a big win in U.K. election, exit poll suggests
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Labor Party on track for a big win in U.K. election, exit poll suggests

LA Times  

Britain’s Labor Party leader Keir Starmer could be the next prime minister, as exit polls show his party beating the ruling Conservatives in the July 4, 2024, parliamentary election. Britain’s Labor Party headed for a landslide victory in a parliamentary election Thursday, an exit poll suggested, as voters punished the governing Conservatives after 14 years of economic and political upheaval. …

Labour scores big win in UK: Keir Starmer takes over as prime minister
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Labour scores big win in UK: Keir Starmer takes over as prime minister

Salon  

The British Labour Party, which has been out of power since 2010, has won a huge majority in the British Parliament — although the verdict of the electorate is not quite as overwhelming as the numerical results suggest. Keir Starmer, the moderate who has led Labour since the party's crushing defeat under left-wing legend Jeremy Corbyn in 2019, literally became …

UK’s landmark postwar elections: When Blair won the first of his 3 elections in 1997
5 months, 3 weeks ago

UK’s landmark postwar elections: When Blair won the first of his 3 elections in 1997

Associated Press  

LONDON — Britain’s Labour Party has swept to power after more than a decade in opposition, as a jaded electorate handed the party a landslide victory. Under Blair, Labour won a majority of 179 seats, even bigger than the party’s victory over Winston Churchill’s Conservatives soon after the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. Blair would lead Labour to three …

UK general election 2024 explained in maps and charts
5 months, 3 weeks ago

UK general election 2024 explained in maps and charts

Al Jazeera  

Britons will head to the polls on July 4. On July 4, Britons will head to the polls to choose the next party to lead the country, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced snap elections on May 22. A party needs to win at least 50 percent of the seats – 326 – to secure a majority in the House …

UK’s landmark postwar elections: When Labour ended 13 years of Conservative rule in 1964
5 months, 3 weeks ago

UK’s landmark postwar elections: When Labour ended 13 years of Conservative rule in 1964

Associated Press  

LONDON — Britain’s upcoming general election is widely expected to lead to a change of government for the first time in 14 years. So the 1964 election was a race between the aristocratic Douglas-Home and Labour leader Harold Wilson, who was buzzing with ideas such as harnessing the “white heat of technology” to modernize the ailing British economy. Wilson, who …

Britain’s Conservatives are losing as they governed. Meekly
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Britain’s Conservatives are losing as they governed. Meekly

Hindustan Times  

Squint a little and the letters “UwU” resemble someone with large, cartoonish eyes and a serene smile. Gazing upon a dying Conservative administration in 1993, Lord Lamont, who had recently been sacked as chancellor, accused Sir John Major’s government of being “in office but not in power”. “It would be parliamentary democracy in its weakest form since the 1930s,” warned …

Our new “mega-poll” gives Labour an expected majority of 280 seats
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Our new “mega-poll” gives Labour an expected majority of 280 seats

The Economist  

N ATIONWIDE OPINION polls in Britain have long made clear that the Labour Party is on track to win the overall popular vote by a thumping margin. Using these data, we built a statistical model—the “multi-level regression” of MRP —to predict voting intentions for each of 16m possible unique combinations of voters’ age group, sex, ethnicity, education level, constituency and …

UK general elections: Which are the main parties, what are their key plans?
6 months ago

UK general elections: Which are the main parties, what are their key plans?

Al Jazeera  

Political parties are vying for votes, with promises covering taxes, immigration and even re-joining the EU. Impose a binding cap for legal migration and deport asylum seekers who arrive by irregular means to Rwanda Current leader: Rishi Sunak In power since: 2010 under Prime Minister David Cameron, followed by Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak Seats in …

Why U.K. Conservatives Are Headed For A Historic Defeat
6 months ago

Why U.K. Conservatives Are Headed For A Historic Defeat

Huff Post  

The party of U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is headed for a historic defeat in the July 4 general election, after 14 years in power. 🚨NEW Savanta MRP for @Telegraph 📈Lab projected for 382 majority 📉Cons fighting with LDs to be Official Opposition Seat forecast 🌹Lab 516 🌳Con 53 🔶LD 50 🎗️SNP 8 🌼PC 4 ⬜️Other 0 17,812 UK adults, …

Britain’s rollercoaster-riding Liberal Democrat leader embraces stunts to gain election attention
6 months ago

Britain’s rollercoaster-riding Liberal Democrat leader embraces stunts to gain election attention

Associated Press  

LONDON — Most politicians try to avoid slips, stumbles and undignified photos. “I think that by taking a slightly different approach – with a bit of humor, a bit of emotion -- you can get people’s attention.” Davey spoke to The Associated Press after visiting Nickel Support, a center for learning-disabled adults. In campaigning for the U.K.’s July 4 election, …

What happened this week in the UK election campaign, from manifesto launches to robots and Haribos
6 months, 1 week ago

What happened this week in the UK election campaign, from manifesto launches to robots and Haribos

Associated Press  

LONDON — The U.K.'s general election campaign has now passed the halfway mark, and finally the main political parties have published their plans for government should they win on July 4. Sunak’s Conservatives are putting tax front-and-center of their election campaign, arguing that an incoming Labour government would cost households more than 2,000 pounds. While the Conservative Party’s document had …

Bombshell study suggests Labour could win almost 500 seats
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Bombshell study suggests Labour could win almost 500 seats

Daily Mail  

Labour could win an unprecedented almost 500 seats in the election amid a Tory wipeout, according to a bombshell study. The forecast Labour victory would hand party leader Sir Keir Starmer a whopping majority of more than 300. The study by experts Electoral Calculus, shared exclusively with the Daily Mail, finds that the Tories are on course to be reduced …

Labour mayor wins in Rishi Sunak's backyard as Tories endure torrid local elections that see them lose slew of true-blue councils and hundreds of seats in crucial general election battlegrounds
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Labour mayor wins in Rishi Sunak's backyard as Tories endure torrid local elections that see them lose slew of true-blue councils and hundreds of seats in crucial general election battlegrounds

Daily Mail  

This video is no longer available This video is no longer available Rishi Sunak suffered the indignity of seeing of seeing a Labour mayor win in his own constituency today as the Tories endured a torrid day of local elections that saw the party hemorrhage councils and seats. In a boost for Rishi Sunak, senior sources acknowledged that they had …

The UK’s Conservatives suffer historic losses in local elections as Labour edges closer to power
7 months, 3 weeks ago

The UK’s Conservatives suffer historic losses in local elections as Labour edges closer to power

Associated Press  

LONDON — Britain’s governing Conservative Party suffered heavy losses in local election results Friday, further cementing expectations that the Labour Party will return to power after 14 years in a U.K. general election that will take place in the coming months. Britain’s governing Conservative Party is suffering heavy losses as local election results pour in Friday, piling pressure on Prime …

Britain’s Conservatives suffer historic losses in elections as Labor edges closer to power
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Britain’s Conservatives suffer historic losses in elections as Labor edges closer to power

LA Times  

Britain’s governing Conservative Party suffered heavy losses in local election results Friday, further cementing expectations that the Labor Party will return to power after 14 years in a U.K. general election that will take place in the coming months. The seat had gone Conservative in the last general election in 2019, when then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson made big inroads in …

Britain’s opposition Labour Party wins 2 big prizes in momentum-building special elections
1 year, 2 months ago

Britain’s opposition Labour Party wins 2 big prizes in momentum-building special elections

Associated Press  

LONDON — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party decisively won two special elections Friday, snatching seats in Parliament that long were rock-solid bastions of the governing Conservatives. The outcome solidified Labour’s status as front-runner ahead of a national election next year and piled more pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to turn his party’s fortunes around. Conservative Party chairman Greg Hands …

UK’s opposition Labour Party gets a boost from a special election victory in Scotland
1 year, 2 months ago

UK’s opposition Labour Party gets a boost from a special election victory in Scotland

Associated Press  

LONDON — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party won an emphatic victory Friday in a special election for a Scottish district that was watched as an indicator of the party’s rebounding popularity ahead of a national election next year. The result adds to pressure on Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf, who took over as SNP leader in March after his predecessor …

Under Sunak, can the right-wing Conservatives win another UK election?
1 year, 2 months ago

Under Sunak, can the right-wing Conservatives win another UK election?

Al Jazeera  

The ruling party, which held a divisive conference this week, has been in power for 13 years but is struggling in opinion polls. “Useless”, “rubbish”, “bad”, “incompetent” and “corrupt” were the most prominent terms that appeared on a Savanta UK word cloud after it asked 2,000 people to describe the right-wing party, led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “They might …

Sunak’s Conservatives suffer 2 big defeats but avoid a wipeout in trio of UK special elections
1 year, 5 months ago

Sunak’s Conservatives suffer 2 big defeats but avoid a wipeout in trio of UK special elections

Associated Press  

LONDON — Voters weary of economic pain and political turmoil handed Britain’s governing Conservatives two thumping defeats Friday in a trio of special elections that point toward likely defeat for the party in the next national election. The Conservatives avoided a wipeout by holding onto former premier Boris Johnson ‘s seat in suburban London — a sliver of comfort for …

UK local elections: Conservatives battered as Labour surges
1 year, 7 months ago

UK local elections: Conservatives battered as Labour surges

Associated Press  

LONDON — Britain’s Conservative Party endured a drubbing from voters Friday in local elections that delivered a warning to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ’s government, and a boost to the opposition, as a national election approaches. Labour leader Keir Starmer said “we are on course for a Labour majority at the next general election.” The Conservatives acknowledged it had been …

Two in three Britons want new political party to take on Tories and Labour
1 year, 9 months ago

Two in three Britons want new political party to take on Tories and Labour

The Independent  

Almost two in three voters want a new political party to take on the Conservatives and Labour, a shock new study of trust in politics has found. Just 23 per cent of people said they felt close to the Tories, down four points since 2022, compared with 29 per cent saying the same about Labour, an increase of six points. …

Tories ‘set to lose 550 seats’ in worst local election performance in a generation
2 years, 7 months ago

Tories ‘set to lose 550 seats’ in worst local election performance in a generation

The Telegraph  

The Conservatives are on track to lose nearly 550 seats in the local elections in the worst performance since Sir Tony Blair led Labour in the 1990s, a survey has predicted. Labour will hold 3,500 council seats – a gain of more than 800 – whilst the Tories will retain just under 980, a fall of 548, according to the …

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