The 2024 General Election will be held on the 4th of July. Follow for stats and campaign coverage. Previously covered UK Politics in the 2010s. #GE2024
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🚨 EXIT POLL 🚨
🌹 LAB: 410
🔵 CON: 131
🔶 LDEM: 61
➡️ RFM: 13
🟡 SNP: 10
🟢 GRN: 2
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Deposits lost at the 2024 General Election:
🟢 GRN: 258
🔶LDEM: 229
➡️ RFM: 32
🔵 CON: 31
🌹 LAB: 1
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A reminder of how close the Welsh Labour leadership contest was earlier this year:
🌹 Vaughan Gething: 51.7%
🌹 Jeremy Miles: 48.3%
NEW: Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething has resigned.
It comes after four members of his government quit their positions this morning.
First opinion poll since the General Election:
🔴 LAB: 39%
🔵 CON: 20%
➡️ RFM: 16%
🔶 LDEM: 11%
🟢 GRN: 9%
🟡 SNP: 2%
Source: @wethinkpolling
South West Norfolk:
🌹 LAB: 26.7% (+8.4)
🔵 CON: 25.3% (-43.4%)
➡️ RFM: 22.4% (+22.5)
LAB GAIN from CON
The Conservatives lost the election because we failed to take on the 25 year consensus which has led to economic stagnation and cultural decline.
The Starmer Government is the last gasp of Blairism.
Read my article in the @Telegraph 👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07…
How safe are the seats of the potential Conservative leadership candidates?
🔵Tom Tugendhat: 11,166 majority
🔵 Suella Braverman: 6,079
🔵 Priti Patel: 5,145
🔵 James Cleverly: 3,670
🔵 Robert Jenrick: 3,572
🔵 Kemi Badenoch: 2,610
🚨 ONE WEEK AGO POLLS CLOSED AND THE EXIT POLL WAS REVEALED 🚨
🌹 LAB: 410 | 412 (+2)
🔵 CON: 131 | 121 (-10)
🔶 LDEM: 61 | 72 (+11)
➡️ RFM: 13 | 5 (-8)
🟡 SNP: 10 | 9 (-1)
🗳️ PC: 4 (-)
🟢 GRN: 2 | 4 (+2)
(Changes with actual result)
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Former Conservative Prime Ministers’ constituencies after the General Election:
🗳️ Witney (David Cameron):
🔶 LDEM GAIN from CON
🗳️ Maidenhead (Theresa May):
🔶 LDEM GAIN from CON
🗳️ Uxbridge (Boris Johnson)
🌹 LAB GAIN from CON
🗳️ SW Norfolk (Liz Truss)
🌹 LAB GAIN from CON
Former Conservative Prime Ministers’ seats which they represented after the 2024 General Election:
🗳️ Maidenhead (Theresa May):
🔶 LDEM GAIN from CON
🗳️ Witney (David Cameron):
🔶 LDEM GAIN from CON
🗳️ Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson)
🌹 LAB GAIN from CON
Stephen Flynn will continue as the SNP’s Westminster leader after the party was reduced from 48 to 9 MPs. Flynn held his Aberdeen South seat:
🟡 SNP: 32.8% (-12.5)
🌹 LAB: 24.7% (+15.9)
🔵 CON: 24.4% (-10)
➡️ RFM: 6.9% (+0.5)
🔶 LDEM: 6.3% (-4.4)
Liz Truss’ majority for the South West Norfolk constituency prior to her defeat:
🔵 2015: 13,861
🔵 2017: 18,312
🔵 2019: 26,195
🌹 2024: 630 (LAB GAIN)
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Iain Duncan Smith was widely predicted to lose his seat at the start of the campaign but he held on after a split in the anti-Tory vote:
🔵 CON: 35.6% (-12.6)
🌹 LAB: 25.8% (-19.5)
🗳️ IND (Faiza Shaheen): 25.7% (+25.7)
➡️ RFM: 7.5% (+7.2%)
Wes Streeting majority for the Ilford North constituency:
🌹 2015: 589
🌹 2017: 9,639
🌹 2019: 5,198
🌹 2024: 528
The new Health Secretary was just 528 votes from losing his seat to an independent! 😬
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The Greens made three gains at the general election with huge swings - taking their tally of MPs to four:
🟢 Waveney Valley: 32.1% swing from CON to GRN
🟢 Herefordshire North: 32.7% swing from CON to GRN
🟢 Bristol Central: 28.2% swing from LAB to GRN
Ed Davey’s majority for the Kingston and Surbiton constituency:
🔶 2017: 4,124
🔶 2019: 10,489
🔶 2024: 17,235
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Conservative MP Mel Stride’s majority in his Central Devon constituency:
🔵 2017: 15,680
🔵 2019: 17,721
🔵 2024: 61
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Keir Starmer’s majority in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency:
🌹 2017: 30,509
🌹 2019: 27,763
🌹 2024: 11,572
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The East Renfrewshire constituency in Scotland has had three different parties win in the three most recent elections:
🔵 2017: Conservatives (4,712 majority)
🟡 2019: SNP (5,426 majority)
🌹 2024: Labour (8,421 majority)
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