2024-07-06 08:13:45
Labor has won at least 412 of the 650 seats, ending 14 years of Conservative rule, according to the official vote count.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives managed to retain only 121 seats, losing 250 seats, according to the results obtained after the votes were counted in almost all constituencies.
It is the heaviest defeat the Tories have suffered in the entire history of the party.
However, despite the forecasts, Labor has not managed to surpass the previous record – 418 seats, which the party won in 1997 under the leadership of Tony Blair.
The current Prime Minister of Great Britain, Rishi Sunak, has already admitted the defeat on Friday and announced that he takes responsibility for it. He also congratulated Labor leader Keir Starmer on his victory by phone.
Addressing his supporters in central London, the next Prime Minister of Great Britain, Starmer, announced that the country had “reclaimed its future” and that “change starts now”.
He emphasized that he has worked for four and a half years to change the Labor Party, which is now ready to “serve the country” and “rebuild Great Britain to serve the working people”.
The hitherto unrepresented right-wing party “Reform UK” led by Nigel Farage has also entered the parliament, winning four seats.
Faraž himself also finally became a member of parliament after the eighth attempt.
After 15 years, Labor restored its dominant position in Scotland as well, while the Scottish National Party (SNP), losing 38 seats, secured only nine seats.
Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats, who won 71 mandates, increased their representation by 63 seats at the expense of the Tories, displacing the SNP from the positions of the third largest party.
On the other hand, the Irish nationalist party “Sinn Fein” won seven seats, becoming the largest party in the British Parliament, which represents Northern Ireland.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which advocates for the province to remain part of the United Kingdom, has to settle for five seats. In addition, former party leader Ian Paisley has lost his seat held by his family for generations.
Meanwhile, the constituency previously held by current DUP leader Geoffrey Donaldson has been won by Sorcha Eastwood, nominated by the Alliance Party, which seeks to represent both the religiously divided communities of Northern Ireland, both Protestant and Catholic.
It is true that two smaller unionist parties also won one mandate each.
However, on the other hand, the Irish nationalist party SDLP (Social Democrats and Labor Party) won two more seats.
The Welsh nationalists “Plaid Cymru” and the Greens also won four mandates each.
Six independent candidates have entered the parliament.
Among the independents who have entered parliament is former Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn, who once represented the far-left wing of the party but was forced out as a result of an anti-Semitism scandal.
Some other Muslim-majority constituencies previously seen as Labor strongholds also lost to independents who ran as pro-Palestinians.
Although, despite some forecasts, Sunaks managed to keep his seat, former Prime Minister Liza Trasa, who in 2022 managed to stay in the position of the head of the government for only 49 days, had to say goodbye to the deputy chair.
Other influential Tories have also lost their seats, including the former Defense Minister Grant Shaps and Justice Minister Alex Choks.
Together with Sunak, Finance Minister Jeremiah Hunt and Conservative Party Chairman Richard Holden managed to keep their seats, having won in their constituency with a margin of only 20 votes.
In general, 33.8% of voters voted for Labor, for the Conservatives – 23.7%, for the Liberal Democrats – 14.3%, for “Reform UK” – 12.2%, for the Greens 6.8%, for the SNP – 2.4 %, for “Plaid Cymru” – 2.4%. It should be noted that the SNP and Plaid Cymru ran only in constituencies located in Scotland and Wales respectively.
The other candidates received a total of 6.1% of votes.
Paradoxically, Labour’s less than 34% of the vote is historically the lowest number of votes a party has needed to secure a majority.
At the same time, voter turnout has fallen to the lowest level in the last 20 years, reaching less than 60%.
In the previous parliamentary elections held in 2019, 67.3% of eligible Britons went to the polls.
If voter turnout remains at 59.8% at the end of the vote count, it will be the lowest since 2001, when only 59.4% of Britons participated in the elections and the lowest voter turnout since the Second World War was recorded.
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2024-07-06 08:13:45