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Labour wins majority in UK General Elections as Tories lose two-thirds of seats (www.theguardian.com)

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The Labour party has won over 400 seats (out of 650) in the 2024 UK General Elections, and Keir Starmer is expected to replace Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. The Conservatives, in power for the last fourteen years, have suffered a rout, losing over two-thirds of their seats. The SNP has collapsed in Scotland, mostly to Labour, and the Liberal Democrats have gained over sixty seats.

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[-] hellequin67@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago

An overwhelming majority by seats but only 33% of the popular vote.

36% voted Tory/Reform so voters have not shifted left but split the more right wing vote

[-] frazorth@feddit.uk 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We already have the left wing vote split by Labour, Lib Dem and Green.

If you want to claim the 36%, you'll need to add up the left wing parties together.

[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Not left wing. Just left.

None of them are left wing (maybe Green has some left wing stuff?)

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

green is definately left wing, they're hardly anti immigration and pro-big business, anti environmental regulation, are they?

[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

"no right wing talking points" is hardly left wing.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have never heard of them be referred to as anything centrist. I don't know why you think they're not left wing, but from what I've heard from you in this thread, I don't particularly think learning about the mechanism of your mind is likely to give me any uplifting insights into humanity nor politics.

[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know it's a sliding scale, right?

There's not just three choices.

There's Far-side, side-wing, side, side-leaning, center-side for both (plus center).

Then you have fiscal Vs moral lean on both sides.

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

But that's better than nothing, right?

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

And ~54% of the votes went to left(ish) parties, so that's something

[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

And socially progressive parties got 56% of the vote. But that's split between about 4 parties.

[-] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Its missleading to bass too much on that analysis. The parties don't compete for the popular vote but to concentrate votes within seats they feel they can win.

No one was aiming to win the popular vote. I agree that's a problem but we can't really read to much into the split imo.