Thursday UK Elections It ended with the defeat of the Conservative Party, according to opinion polls. All indications are that the opposition Labour Party defeated the Conservatives, and gained an overwhelming advantage.
labor Party Achieve 410 seats In the 650-seat House of Commons while in power Conservative Party I got it 131 Places – according to polls.
They might have scored the third. Liberal Democrats (61 seats), and from outside the platform: the right-wing populist British Reform Party (13 seats), the Scottish National Party (10 seats), the centre-left Plaid Cymru (4 seats) and the Green Party (2 seats). As expected, representatives of other parties won a total of 19 seats.
UK Election. Exit Poll Results Out
Labour’s absolute majority means its leader on Friday Keir Starmer to be welcomed by King Charles IIIWho will be tasked with forming a new government. The Labour Party has been in opposition since losing the May 2010 election. In the previous election, in December 2019, they won 202 seats.
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On the other side Rishi Sunak He will go to Buckingham Palace to formally tender his resignation as prime minister to Charles III. He is expected to announce soon – and possibly as early as Friday – his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party. But he himself appears to have secured a parliamentary mandate, although some forecasts suggest he will become the first sitting prime minister not to enter parliament at the next election.
The Conservatives have equalled their worst result in history. However, it is not as bad as the last pre-election polls had predicted. However, The Conservatives lost nearly two-thirds of the seats they previously held.. At the previous election, in December 2019, they won 365 seats, although their parliamentary club at the end of the House of Commons’ term consisted of 344 people. So far, their worst election in terms of seats won was the one in 1906, when they won 131 seats out of a possible 670.
Meanwhile, the result driven by the school principal Brexit supporter Nigel Farage The right-wing populist British Reform Party means that Farage will also become an MP. In the previous session of the Commons, the composition included only one representative, who was elected as a Conservative, but he changed his party affiliation in March.
UK Election. Voting is over.
More than 100,000 people were eligible to vote. 46 million citizensThe British can vote. 40 thousand polling stationswhich closed at 22 (11 pm in Poland).
The vote was supposed to decide. 650 members of the House of Commons. 4,515 candidates competed for the seats, the highest number in history, including 459 independent candidates, and the rest representing 98 political parties, also a record. The elections are based on a majority system in single-member constituencies, meaning that from each of the 650 districts the candidate who receives the most votes is elected.
Pre-election polls had already suggested that Thursday’s election result would mark the end of 14 years of Conservative rule and return Labour to power under May. Kira StarmiraMoreover, the Labor Party was expected to gain a large, even record, advantage.
The newly elected House of Commons will meet on Tuesday 9 July – on that day a Speaker will be elected, who will almost certainly be Lindsay Hoyle, and the swearing-in will begin, which will last for several days. The opening of the new session of Parliament is scheduled for 17 July, with the Speech from the Throne by the Queen. King Charles III The legislative programme will be presented to the government.
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