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.
Last I checked ~18:00BST
Party Seats Votes % Lab 412 9,725,117 33.8 Con 121 6,824,610 23.7 Reform 5 4,103,727 14.3 Lib Dem 71 3,501,004 12.2 Green 4 1,941,220 6.8 Indep. 7 841,835 2.9 …I am personally glad that the next government is not going to be stuffed full with bigoted nationalists from Reform. I can’t help but marvel though at how wonky the system of voting is that let the Lib Dem’s get an order of magnitude more seats than Reform with 600k fewer votes. Reform got just under half Labour’s vote share and only slightly over 1% of their seats.
It’s a stupid system, but I don’t expect the party that got 412 seats on a 34% voteshare to reform it.
FPP is absolutely awful. You need voting reform ASAP