The Labour Party led by Keir Starmer has achieved a crushing victory in the parliamentary elections held this Thursday in the United Kingdom, according to exit polls that project that will obtain 410 seatsalthough it would not be able to surpass the Labour record of 418 MPs set in 1997 by Tony Blair.
The poll – distributed at the close of polls at 10:00 p.m. (local time) by the BBC, ITV and Sky News – confirms the defeat of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party, which had been predicted since the last polls. The Tories would be left with 131 seats241 fewer than in the current legislature.
The hard one, but predictable defeat of the Conservative PartyIf confirmed overnight, when the vote begins to trickle down constituency by constituency, it would put an end to 14 years of conservative governments that have been burdened, among other things, by the collateral effects of Brexit.
The Liberal Democratic Party would be the third force.with Ed Davey at the helm, would have won 61 seats, 53 more than in the last election. In fourth place would be the Scottish National Party (SNP) of John Swinney, which would lose 38 seats, remaining with 10 deputies. Finally, the Welsh independence party Plaid Cymru would gain 4, while the Greens would remain with 2.
Nigel Farage’s Reform Party would win 13 seats, achieving representation for the first time. It did not win any seats in the 2019 election, although MP Lee Anderson, a former senior Conservative Party member, announced in March that he was moving to the Brexit Party’s successor.
Citizens of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Commonwealth countries went to the polls on Thursday in an election day that started at 7:00 (local time) to elect 650 deputies divided according to the population of the different territories: 543 in England, 57 in Scotland, 32 in Wales and 18 in Northern Ireland.
The system does not require an absolute majority nor does it establish second rounds, which facilitates the useful vote. The data from the latest survey published on Thursday by the British company YouGov already They predicted a historic victory of the Labour Party with 431 seats, 229 more than in the last elections.
Source: Lasexta
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