UK Election Result 2024: The Labour Party won a landslide victory in Britain. With this, Keir Starmer has officially become the new Prime Minister of Britain. After meeting King Charles of Britain, Keir Starmer addressed outside 10 Downing Street and talked about change in the country. Keir Starmer’s victory is being considered big in many ways. The Labour Party emerged in the year 2018, which ousted Rishi Sunak from power by destroying the Conservative Party in this election.
The Labor Party won over 400 seats
Nigel Farage’s party Reform UK has won four seats in the general elections. Reform UK is a right-wing party and the Conservative Party also has almost the same ideology. Talking about the results of Britain 2024, the Labor Party has won 410 seats and the Conservative Party has won 119 seats. Talking about the vote share in this election, the Labor Party got 33.8 percent, the Conservative Party got 23.7 percent and Reform UK got 14.3 percent votes.
The Labor Party’s performance was impressive compared to the last election
Talking about the 2019 general election in Britain, the Labor Party got 203 seats and the Conservative Party got 365 seats. In the last general election, not a single candidate of Reform UK won. Talking about the vote share in the last general election in Britain, the Labor Party got 32.2 percent, the Conservative Party got 43.6 percent and Reform UK got 2 percent votes.
From the results of the last general election in Britain, we can guess that Rishi Sunak’s party has lost almost 20 percent of the votes and Reform UK has gained more than 12 percent of the votes. These votes ousted Sunak’s party from power. On the other hand, the Labor Party, which has registered a landslide victory, has gained less than 2 percent of the votes compared to 2019 but has a huge difference in seats. In terms of vote share in this election, Nigel Farage’s party Reform UK has made a huge leap.
| Party | 2019 vote share |
2024 vote share
|
2019 seat
|
2024 seat |
|
Labor Party
|
32.2 percent |
33.8 percent
|
203 | 412 |
| Conservative Party |
43.6 percent
|
23.7 percent
|
365 | 119 |
| Reform UK |
2 percent
|
14.3 percent
|
0 | 4 |
Nigel Farage, a fiery personality, is very active on social media. The Daily Telegraph ranked him second after Cameron in a survey of the 100 most influential right-wingers. In 2023, the New Statesman ranked Farage first in its Right Power List and described him as “the most influential person on the British right”.
Nigel has written on his party’s performance that this is just the beginning. Former US President Donald Trump has congratulated him on the party’s performance.
Birth of the Reform UK party
- This party emerged as the Brexit Party in November 2018.
- Advocating a no-deal Brexit, it won the most seats in the 2019 European Parliament election in the UK.
- After this, this party could not win any seat in the 2019 general election. In this election, the Conservative Party won 365 seats and formed the government.
- Britain left the European Union (EU) in January 2020. A year later, in January 2021, the party was renamed Reform UK.
- This party had opposed the lockdown during Covid.
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