Counting begins
The counting of votes for the British general election will begin in Glasgow, Scotland on July 4, 2024. Counting workers at the counting center at the Emirates Stadium dump ballots on the table.
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The manual counting of millions of votes cast in Britain’s 650 constituencies has begun, with the first results set to be announced until Friday morning.
—Jenny Reed
Ruling Conservatives to face big blow: Exit polls
An exit poll is expected to be released by London’s BBC Radio on July 4, 2024, predicting that Keir Starmer’s Labor Party will win 410 seats in the UK general election. A landslide victory in the British general election.
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Britain’s incumbent Conservatives are expected to lose power in Thursday’s election, but initial exit polls show an alarming swing.
A poll conducted by Ipsos UK for Sky News, BBC and ITV News showed that the 650 seats in the House of Commons would be roughly divided as follows:
Workforce: 410
Conservatives: 131
Liberal Democrats: 61
Reform: 13
Scottish National Party: 10
Plaid Cymru: 4
Green: 2
Others: 19
In the 2019 general election, the Conservatives won 365 seats and Labor won 202 seats.
—Jenny Reed
Exit polls show landslide victory for Labor
Exit polls released after the election polls showed Labor was expected to win a landslide victory while the incumbent Conservatives faced a crushing defeat.
The poll, conducted by Ipsos UK for Sky News, the BBC and ITV News, showed Labor winning 410 seats out of 650, with the Conservatives winning 131 seats. Significant gains were made, with the Lib Dems winning 61 seats and Nigel Farage winning 61 seats.
—Jenny Reed
Big-name politicians want to avoid a ‘Portillo moment’
Former British politician Michael Portillo speaks at the 2000 Conservative Party conference. ”, indicating a shift in support towards the opposition.
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While pollsters are predicting a sweeping Labor victory, many seats are considered too close to call – including those held by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Finance Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
According to statistics, about 120 of the 650 seats are expected to have a winning rate of less than 5 percentage points. projection model From the Financial Times.
Prominent politicians will seek to avoid what is known in British political parlance as a “Portillo moment”. This is a reference to former Conservative politician Michael Portillo, who lost his seat to relatively unknown Labor opponent Stephen Twigg at the 1997 general election. Portillo, meanwhile, is a big shot, a former defense secretary and considered a potential future party leader.
The shock result was seen as emblematic of the leanings of Labour, which won a landslide victory under Tony Blair over current Prime Minister John Major.
—Jenny Reed
2019 UK general election results
Under former Conservative leader Boris Johnson, the party won a majority of 365 seats at the last general election in 2019, while Labor won 202 seats.
The turnout was 67.3%.
By the time Parliament was dissolved on May 30 this year to kick off the July 4 election campaign, a series of political developments had split the number to 344 Conservative MPs and 205 Labor MPs.
—Jenny Reed
Britain elects new parliament for first time in nearly five years
A woman walks with her dog past Ross Park polling station on July 4, 2024 in Cardiff, England.
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Millions of British citizens from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland voted on Thursday to elect their local representatives to the British House of Commons.
In typical British fashion, the weather was changeable and unusually cool during the UK’s first July general election since 1945.
The UK elects 650 members of Parliament, called MPs. By long-standing convention, the prime minister is an MP appointed by the monarch who can “enjoy the confidence” of the House of Commons – in effect, he is the leader of the party with the most seats.
Labor leader Keir Starmer arrives at a polling station with his wife Victoria Starmer to cast their vote in the 2024 general election.
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In the future, MPs will stand for election in one of the UK’s 650 constituencies. In a system known as first-past-the-post, voters can choose only one candidate from local lists, and the person with the most votes in each constituency becomes the MP.
Unlike other voting systems, there is no second round and no ranking of first- and second-choice candidates, meaning it is difficult for smaller parties to convert more popular votes into parliamentary seats.
British Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty arrived at Kirby Sigston’s house in Northallerton, northern England Vote at a polling station.
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About 40,000 polling stations were open between 7am and 10pm on Thursday, with one of the two main parties – Labor or the Conservatives – expected to hand the other the win sometime on Friday morning.
—Jenny Reed
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