UK general election 2024 results: Five key takeaways
Al Jazeera
Key takeaways, from Starmer’s Labour Party win and the Conservative Party’s fall, to Reform winning seats.
Britons have handed Keir Starmer’s Labour Party nearly two-thirds of the seats in the UK Parliament’s 650-seat House of Commons in what has been described as an “historic” general election following 14 years of rule by the Conservative Party.
Here are some key takeaways from the results of Thursday’s election.
The Conservative Party, led by former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, was subjected to its worst loss in history.
The party has lost 250 seats since the last general election in 2019, having won a total of 121 seats this year. Eleven Conservative cabinet ministers were unseated this election.
The Conservative vote share plunged by 20 percentage points since 2019 to just 24 percent, as supporters switched in their droves to Reform UK, the far-right party led by Nigel Farage.
