[296] In an episode of Have I Got News for You aired during the campaign period, Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye, suggested the BBC was biased in favour of the Conservatives. Having won 56 of 59 Scottish seats at the last general election, the SNP lost a total of 21 seats, and majorities in its remaining seats were greatly reduced. These saw large gains by the Conservatives, and large losses by Labour and UKIP. [69], The SNP confirmed on 22 April that its 54 sitting MPs would be re-selected and that its suspended members Natalie McGarry and Michelle Thomson would not be nominated as SNP candidates; the party subsequently selected candidates for McGarry's and Thomson's former seats, as well as for the three Scottish constituencies it did not win in 2015. Sinn Féin maintained its abstentionist policy. [193], Labour proposed the creation of four new bank holidays, marking the feast days of the patron saints of the United Kingdom's constituent nations. In this case, the options for forming the Government are either a minority government or a coalition.[6]. [207] After the 2017 London Bridge attack, Corbyn said that a conversation should take place "with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states that have funded and fuelled extremist ideology". The chart below shows the percentage of registered voters who actually voted at each general election from 1945—2019, excluding votes deliberately or accidentally spoiled. [288] However, few Guardian or Mirror election-related editorials called for a vote for Labour, and even fewer endorsed Corbyn – many articles in left-wing papers criticised him, or he was ignored. UKIP, then led by Nigel Farage, who was later replaced by Diane James and then by Paul Nuttall in 2016, won 12.7% of the vote in 2015 but gained only one MP, Douglas Carswell, who left the party in March 2017 to sit as an independent. Up to the minute results in the 2017 General Election from BBC News. [202], A draft copy of Labour's manifesto was leaked to the Daily Mirror and The Daily Telegraph on 10 May. [427] May's joint chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill resigned, replaced by Gavin Barwell, who had lost his seat in the election. [185] The manifesto was noted for its intervention in industry, lack of tax cuts and increased spending commitments on public services. [224][225] Bob Marshall-Andrews, a Labour MP from 1997 to 2010, announced he would support the Liberal Democrats. BLINDSIDED is the product of a global, video-based research project that – through the eyes of families around the world – captures the critical moments over four months where the world found itself entangled in a pandemic and tumbling into recession. [223] The party reportedly targeted seats which had voted to remain in the EU, such as Twickenham, Oxford West and Abingdon, and Vauxhall. [148][149][150] The previous coalition government had commissioned a review by Andrew Dilnot into how to fund social care. [109][110], On 6 May, a letter from Church of England Archbishops Justin Welby and John Sentamu stressed the importance of education, housing, communities and health. Despite the changes we have introduced to our methodology since 2015, which we believe have made our samples more representative, polls may still be more likely to interview politically engaged people than those who are disengaged, people may over-estimate their likelihood of voting, and they may think they are registered when in fact they are not. The election was characterised by higher turnout, particularly among younger voters, which may have contributed to Labour's increased vote share. Ian Blackford became the new SNP leader in Westminster on 14 June, following Angus Robertson's defeat. Richmond Park, which the Liberal Democrats had won in a 2016 by-election, was narrowly lost to the Conservatives. A third party took ten of these seats: nine were Conservative gains from the SNP in seats that the SNP had won from Labour in 2015, whilst Portsmouth South, which the Conservatives had gained from the Lib Dems in 2015, was then gained by Labour in 2017. Points of criticism included the initial decision to call the election (which Lynton Crosby had advised against); the control of the campaign by a small team of May's joint chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, who were more experienced with policy work than campaigning; the presidential style of the campaign focusing on the figure of Theresa May, while most of the Cabinet were sidelined (particularly the exclusion of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond, with reports that May would sack him after the election);[447] and a poorly designed manifesto that offered little hope and the contents of which were not shared with Cabinet members until shortly before its release. The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost all their seats. Turnout and Electorate Turnout. 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[440] Stone stated that the right-wing of the party weaponised claims of antisemitism—amongst other things—in an active attempt to undermine Corbyn and prevent Labour from winning the 2017 election in the hope that a poor result would trigger a leadership contest to remove Corbyn as leader.[441]. [404] It found 60% of those aged 18–24 voted Labour while 61% of over-64s voted Conservative. The 2017 general election was swung by young voters and high turnout according to the Ipsos Mori How Britain Voted survey ‘Youthquake’ behind election surge: analysis Mon 19 Jun 2017 … Liz Truss, David Lidington and David Gauke changed roles, while eleven cabinet members including key figures such as Boris Johnson, Amber Rudd, Michael Fallon, Philip Hammond and David Davis remained in post. Candidates not belonging to a registered party could use an "independent" label, or no label at all. 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[94], Notwithstanding national arrangements, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens, and UKIP indicated they might not stand in every constituency. [95] The Green Party of England and Wales chose not to contest 22 seats explicitly "to increase the chance of a progressive candidate beating the Conservatives",[96] including South West Surrey, the seat of Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, in favour of the National Health Action Party candidate. Its gains were predominantly in university towns and cities and in London, most notably achieving victories in Battersea, Canterbury, Kensington and Ipswich from the Conservatives by narrow margins;[391] it also lost five seats to the Conservatives, largely in the Midlands, and did not regain Copeland which had been lost in a February by-election. Plaid Cymru retained its three existing seats and gained Ceredigion, the Liberal Democrats' only seat in Wales. By overestimating the number of registered voters, official sources underestimated the proportion of the electorate that voted. Notably, the Conservatives won metro mayor elections in Tees Valley and the West Midlands, areas traditionally seen as Labour heartlands. They gained Clacton from UKIP and Southport from the Liberal Democrats in addition to the six gains from Labour. [352], Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood chose not to contest a Westminster seat, nor did former Labour MP and shadow chancellor Ed Balls.[353][354]. The Conservatives won 317 seats with 42.4% of the vote while the Labour Party won 262 seats with 40.0% of the vote. The Greens' vote share dropped from 3.8% to 1.6%. [400] Recording its best result since partition, Sinn Féin confirmed it would continue its abstentionist policy, leaving no nationalist representation in the House of Commons.[401]. [134][135] Corbyn backed calls for May to resign, but said she should be removed by voters. [127][128][129] May, after the second attack, focused on global co-operation to tackle Islamist ideology and tackling the use of the internet by terrorist groups. After declining to state whether he thought gay sex was a sin, Farron affirmed that he believed neither being gay nor having gay sex are sinful. [251][252] The BBC held two debates to which all seven main party leaders were invited, on 31 May in Cambridge and 6 June in Manchester; both May and Corbyn stated they would not attend the 31 May debate. [65][67] Having devolved selections to its Scottish and Welsh parties, Labour's National Executive Committee endorsed all parliamentary candidates on 3 May except for Rochdale, the seat of suspended MP Simon Danczuk. Ipsos MORI polling after the election suggested the following demographic breakdown: YouGov polling after the election suggested the following demographic breakdown: Corbyn and Farron called on May to resign. [118] May said she called the snap election to secure a majority for her Brexit negotiations. [404] The swing to Labour was high in those seats with large numbers of young people. [394][395] The Conservative Party placed second in Scotland for the first time since 1992, won its largest number of seats in Scotland since 1983[396] and recorded its highest share of the vote there since 1979. Their intention was to swing the elections for Labour. [246] Labour subsequently ruled out Corbyn taking part in television debates without May. The election resulted in the third hung parliament since the Second World War, elections in February 1974 and 2010 having previously resulted in hung parliaments. The Conservatives remained the largest single party in terms of seats and votes, but were short of a parliamentary majority. [78] After the Liberal Democrats rejected David Ward, the former MP for Bradford East, for anti-semitism, he contested that seat as an independent. The government announced that it intended for the next parliament to assemble on 13 June, with the state opening on 19 June. This Insight looks at the parts of the UK where turnout was highest and lowest.
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