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HISTORIC UK GENERAL ELECTION · 12 DECEMBER 2019
2019 UK general election results
Brexit breaks the Red Wall
Largest party365 seats
Boris Johnson converted a modest vote-share lead into the Conservatives' largest majority since 1987.
What happened?
Conservative was the largest grouping with 365 seats, ahead of Labour on 202. 81-seat government majority.
Who formed the government?
Boris Johnson led the conservative majority government after the election.
Was it a shock?
Polls pointed to a Conservative victory. The striking element was the geography and depth of Labour losses, not the identity of the winner.
CONTEXT
Britain before the vote
Parliament had deadlocked over Brexit. The Conservatives promised to ‘get Brexit done’, while Labour sought to unite voters with sharply different views on leaving the EU.
RESULT
What the election changed
The Conservatives won 365 seats and gained a run of long-held Labour constituencies in the Midlands, north of England and north Wales. Labour fell to its lowest seat total since 1935.
SWING
4.6-point swing to Conservative
Two-party swing calculated from the 2017 and 2019 UK vote shares.
BOUNDARIES
How to read the seat total
This result used the 2010-2019 boundary set. It should not be painted onto the revised constituencies first contested in 2024.
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