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| Turnout | 67.3% ( 1.6 pp) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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This is the results breakdown of the 2019 United Kingdom general election . [2]
| Party | 2017 | 2019 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Party | 42.4% | 43.6% | +1.2 |
| Labour Party | 40.0% | 32.1% | −7.8 |
| Liberal Democrats | 7.4% | 11.5% | +4.2 |
| Scottish National Party | 3.0% | 3.9% | +0.9 |
| Green Party | 1.6% | 2.7% | +1.1 |
| Brexit Party | N/A | 2.0% | +2.0 |
| Other(s) | 5.6% | 4.1% | −1.5 |
| Total % | 100.0 | 100.0 | – |
| Political party | Leader | Candidates | MPs [4] | Votes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Gained | Lost | Net | Of total (%) | Total | Of total (%) | Change (%) | ||||
| Conservative | Boris Johnson | 635 | 365 | 58 | 10 |  48 | 56.2 | 13,966,454 | 43.63 | +1.2 | |
| Labour | Jeremy Corbyn | 631 | 202 | 1 | 61 | 60 | 31.1 | 10,269,051 | 32.08 | −7.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jo Swinson | 611 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1.7 | 3,696,419 | 11.55 | +4.2 | |
| Scottish National Party | Nicola Sturgeon | 59 | 48 | 14 | 1 | 13 | 7.4 | 1,242,380 | 3.88 | +0.8 | |
| Green Party of England and Wales | Siân Berry and Jonathan Bartley | 472 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 835,597 | 2.61 | +1.1 | |
| Brexit Party | Nigel Farage | 275 | 644,257 | 2.01 | |||||||
| DUP | Arlene Foster | 17 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.2 | 244,128 | 0.76 | −0.1 | |
| Sinn Féin | Mary Lou McDonald | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.1 | 181,853 | 0.57 | −0.2 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Adam Price | 36 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 153,265 | 0.48 | 0.0 | |
| Alliance | Naomi Long | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.2 | 134,115 | 0.42 | +0.2 | |
| SDLP | Colum Eastwood | 15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.3 | 118,737 | 0.37 | +0.1 | |
| UUP | Steve Aiken | 16 | 93,123 | 0.29 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Yorkshire | Christopher Whitwood | 28 | 29,201 | 0.09 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Scottish Greens | Patrick Harvie & Lorna Slater | 22 | 28,122 | 0.09 | |||||||
| Speaker | Lindsay Hoyle | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 26,831 | 0.08 | 0.0 | |
| UKIP | Patricia Mountain (interim) | 44 | 22,817 | 0.07 | −1.8 | ||||||
| Ashfield Ind. | Jason Zadrozny | 1 | 13,498 | 0.04 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Liberal | Steve Radford | 19 | 10,876 | 0.03 | 0.0 | ||||||
| The Independent Group for Change | Anna Soubry | 3 | 10,006 | 0.03 | |||||||
| Aontú | Peadar Tóibín | 7 | 9,814 | 0.03 | |||||||
| Monster Raving Loony | Howling Laud Hope | 24 | 9,739 | 0.03 | 0.0 | ||||||
| People Before Profit | Collective | 2 | 7,526 | 0.02 | |||||||
| Birkenhead Social Justice | Frank Field | 1 | 7,285 | 0.02 | |||||||
| CPA | Sidney Cordle | 29 | 6,486 | 0.02 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Heavy Woollen Independents | Aleksandar Lukic | 1 | 6,432 | 0.02 | |||||||
| SDP | William Clouston | 20 | 3,295 | 0.01 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Animal Welfare | Vanessa Hudson | 6 | 3,086 | 0.01 | 0.0 | ||||||
| North East | Mark Burdon | 2 | 2,637 | 0.01 | |||||||
| Lincolnshire Independent | Marianne Overton | 1 | 1,999 | 0.01 | |||||||
| Green Party Northern Ireland | Clare Bailey | 3 | 1,996 | 0.01 | |||||||
| English Democrat | Robin Tilbrook | 5 | 1,987 | 0.01 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Libertarian | Adam Brown | 6 | 1,780 | 0.01 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Mebyon Kernow | Dick Cole | 1 | 1,660 | 0.01 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Proud of Oldham and Saddleworth | Paul Errock | 2 | 1,606 | 0.01 | |||||||
| Independent Network | Ian Stephens | 1 | 1,542 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Gwlad | Gwyn Wigley Evans | 3 | 1,515 | 0.00 | |||||||
| Cynon Valley | Andrew Chainey | 1 | 1,322 | 0.00 | |||||||
| VPP | Robin Horsfall | 2 | 1,219 | 0.00 | |||||||
| Burnley and Padiham Party | Mark Payne | 1 | 1,162 | 0.00 | |||||||
| Shropshire Party | Robert Jones | 1 | 1,141 | 0.00 | |||||||
| Putting Cumbria First | Jonathan Davies | 1 | 1,070 | 0.00 | |||||||
| Peace | John Morris | 2 | 960 | 0.00 | |||||||
| Wycombe Independents | Matt Knight | 1 | 926 | 0.00 | |||||||
| JAC | Donald Jerrard | 3 | 728 | 0.00 | |||||||
| Christian | Jeff Green | 2 | 705 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Renew | Julie Girling | 4 | 545 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Workers Revolutionary | Joshua Ogunleye | 5 | 524 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ||||||
| BNP | Adam Walker | 1 | 510 | 0.00 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Parties with fewer than 500 votes each | 40 | 5,697 | 0.02 | ||||||||
| Independent (non-party) candidates | 224 | 1 | 1 | 206,486 | 0.64 | ||||||
| Blank and invalid votes | 117,919 | — | — | ||||||||
| Total | 3320 | 650 | 0 | 100 | 32,014,110 [5] | 100 | 0.0 | ||||
| Registered voters, and turnout | 47,587,254 | 67.52 | −1.3 | ||||||||
Being 17 of the 79, this list is 21.5% of those which changed hands.
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