They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. These are external links and will open in a new windowPrime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives have a majority of 80 seats. Turnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. After St Ives became the final constituency to call on Friday afternoon, the Conservatives now have 365 seats, Labour 203, the SNP 48, the Liberal Democrats 11 and the DUP eight.Some of the seats were a close call, with 29 MPs now defending majorities in the hundreds.Fermanagh and South Tyrone saw the smallest majority as Sinn Féin’s Michelle Gildernew held onto her seat with a 57 vote majority over Ulster Unionist Party.Speaking to supporters in London after the election result, He argued that the party must adapt to accommodate its new supporters and embrace a “one-nation Tory” identity.“Good morning, everybody – well, we did it – we pulled it off, didn’t we?“We broke the deadlock, we ended the gridlock, we smashed the roadblock and in this glorious, glorious pre-breakfast moment, before a new dawn rises on a new day and a new government, I want first of all to pay tribute to good colleagues who lost their seats through no fault of their own in the election just gone by. But Labour and the Liberal Democrats combined gained 6,785 more votes.We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Strong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum. You can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.
But crucially, the Tories were able to gain in 376 other seats, mainly in the Brexit-backing areas of Wales, the Midlands and the North.In Yorkshire, the Tories ended the night on 44 per cent of the vote compared to Labour's 40 per cent. Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.
But the Labour and Liberal Democrats combined had almost 12,000 more votes than the Conservatives.It's the same story in Kensington, where the Tories won with just 150 votes - the Liberal Democrats and Labour secured 9,162 more votes overall. The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 12 December 2019. Read our community guidelines in full The Tories saw their vote share increase by some 16.6 per cent as they took a seat that has been won by Labour every year since the constituencies creation in 1997.In the 50 constituencies with the lowest proportion of blue collar workers, the Conservative vote change was down by an average of -2.9 per cent.Despite significant gains for the Conservatives in England, Scotland bucked the trend and ousted almost all of its Tory MPs.
You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. The Conversation 21 Jul 2020. Labour's majority in the constituency fell by 10,000 votes. Majority Sorted Seats This page shows all the seats in England, Scotland and Wales sorted by the predicted difference between Labour and Conservative votes. In an extreme situation where no party or bloc is able to prove its majority, the president can dissolve the parliament and call for fresh elections. In 2017, it became the seat with the highest majority for any British Member of Parliament since the advent of universal suffrage, with Howarth winning a majority of 42,214 votes for Labour, surpassing the 36,230-vote majority held by then- Conservative Prime Minister John Major in his Huntingdon constituency in 1992 . Nicola Sturgeon now seems primed to make Scottish independence a key challenge for the next Johnson administration.In 39 seats across the country, the number of votes cast for the Tories and the Brexit Party combined was higher than the number gained by the winning party. # Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy of YSRCP,has the highest majority in the history of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections held in 2014 with a margin of 75,243 votes. The safest Labour seat, Liverpool Walton, is at the top, and the strongest Conservative seat, South Holland and The Deepings, is at the bottom. New MP Rob Butler has held Aylesbury for the Conservatives with an increased majority after David Lidlington stood down earlier this year.