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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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[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, more people voted for Corbyn in 2017 and probably even in 2019 (still some votes to be counted at time of writing so that could change but it'll be close either way) than voted Labour in this election (12.8 million 2017/10.2 million 2019 vs 9.7 million so far in 2024).

It's just an artifact of FPTP and to some extent overall turnout (which was very low this election) that the results in terms of seats look so different.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

And Starmer hasn't been the victim of a BS smear campaign from the media, the RW and the right of his own party