UK General Election Results 2024: Counting of votes is going on in Britain on Friday (5 July). Exit poll results have started coming in. According to exit poll estimates, this time Sunak’s government is being ousted from power in Britain and the Labor Party seems to be getting a majority. Let us tell you that here millions of people, including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his rival from the Labor Party Keir Starmer, voted on Thursday. This election will decide the political future of Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak (44). Rishi Sunak had urged the voters there not to give a majority to the Labor Party which increases taxes.
Candidates were fielded for 650 constituencies in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Apart from the two main parties, the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, Scottish National Party (SNP), SDLP, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Sinn Fein, Plaid Cymru, Reform Party also fielded their candidates.
About 46 million voters voted at about 40,000 polling stations set up across the country. In the 2019 general election in Britain, the Conservative Party won 365 seats while the Labour Party won 202 seats.
According to a Reuters report, the exit polls show that the Labour Party may win a landslide victory in Britain, while the 14-year-old Conservative government will be ousted from power. The people of Britain voted on July 4 from 7 am to 10 pm local time. After the counting of votes, the British monarch (currently King Charles III) will invite the leader of the majority party to form a new government.
After the announcement of the election dates, the current UK Parliament was dissolved on 30 May 2024. In its election campaign, the Labour Party had highlighted the frequent changes of Prime Ministers during the current tenure of the Tories, Brexit, the collapsing economy and several scandals involving senior Conservative leaders.
Earlier, elections were held in Britain in the month of July in the year 1945. At that time, the Labour Party led by Clement Attlee defeated the Conservative Party of World War II leader Winston Churchill.
(Input also from PTI)