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Labour wins majority in UK General Elections as Tories lose two-thirds of seats (www.theguardian.com)

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The Labour party has won over 400 seats (out of 650) 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. The SNP has collapsed in Scotland, mostly to Labour, and the Liberal Democrats have gained over sixty seats.

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[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 48 points 4 months ago (3 children)

They didn’t do that bad really, it just wasn’t reflected in the results. A new further right party showed up and split the right wing vote, which is largely why Labour won. If you look at the total votes the righter win parties did pretty well (Tories are really all that right wing but they did get the right wing vote).

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 21 points 4 months ago

Yeah, as much as I hate everything Farage stands for, fair play to him for splitting the Tory voters and delivering a Labour government. I just wish that kind of thing wasn’t necessary.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

New party (Reform) skyrocketed in fact. Had the vote not been split, conservatives would have won many more seats. Next cycle will be.. Interesting. Especially with Nigel Farage getting a seat (Trump-like, seeded discontent leading to Brexit, who's never been elected before).

[–] Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

If the UK had a preferential voting system the Tories would have won a lot more seats