Labour wins massive majority - but is this a loveless landslide?
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Published 2024-07-05
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With just one seat left to declare, Labour can boast a majority of 176 MPs. While the Conservatives are down to a third of their previous total. It was a record night for the Liberal Democrats, as they become the third largest party in Westminster. While the SNP suffered huge losses.
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All Comments (21)
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Labour did not win.. the Tories lost. System is a mess
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1% increase on their last vote count and a massive majority instead of a crushing defeat, interesting system
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Absolutely no sympathy for Tories who lost their seat.
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Labour 402 seats with 35% of the vote Reform 5 seats with 15% of the vote And some people actually call this democracy.
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neither the tories or labour wanted to move to proportional representation from FPTP because it would strip them of some of their power so it doesn't happen, last time FPTP worked for the Tories, this time it absolutely fucked them
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It is not a labour landslide, it is a tory major loss, labour had less votes this election than the last.
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Massive majority of seats - not votes!
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Reform 4 seats 4 million votes??? labour 9.5 million and 400+ ...system is a fail.
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Starmer won 9,712,011 votes In 1997 John Major won 9,591,085 votes in the catastrophic Conservative defeat. When the population was a lot lower.
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More than 80% of the country did not vote for Labour. That perfectly highlights just why this electoral system needs to change
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2019: 10,295,907 Labour votes = Conservative landslide 2024: 9,660,081 Labour votes = Labour landslide Something’s very wrong with our political system.
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YouGov sleuthing details that only around 5% of the poeple who actually voted for Labour did so for their policies/promises. The public just have absolute contempt for the political class, that contempt always focuses most on who's in power at the time
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Getting 64% of the seats on 34% of the votes is just utterly bonkers. I like that the Tories were obliterated, but this electoral system of yours is just ridiculous. It's as far as you can get from democracy this side of Belarus.
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No money for the public but money for war and insider contracts
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Sectarianism introduced into mainland UK politics, regardless of who you voted for this should be a huge red flag.
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What happens?? The country takes a nosedive into Oblivion đź‘Ť
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Over 80% of the UK didn’t vote Labour. Just keep that mind.
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I did not vote for labour and I am sorry that so many people of this nation that did. I believe it is more a punishment vote for the many, many, conservatives failings. I hope I am wrong, but I think the Man just elected to prime minster will be an huge mistake for this nation.
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20% of the overall vote is not a massive landslide
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Labour won 34% ofbthe vote on a 60% turn out and Starmers majority effectively halved ..... 80% of the Electorate DIDN'T vote for Labour and the vast majority of the the 400+ seats are now marginals. Starmer is in no way popular and I'd wager within 3 - 6 months many of the voters who voted Labour will have huge buyers remorse with what Labour have planned ..... and my prediction Starmer will be removed/replaced within 24 months and this will 've a 1 term Parliament
