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= 2022 United Kingdom general election = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 12 December 2019. It resulted in the Conservative Party receiving a landslide majority of 80 seats. The Conservatives made a net gain of 48 seats and won 43.6% of the popular vote – the highest percentage for any party since 1979.

Having failed to obtain a majority in the 2017 general election, the Conservative Party had faced prolonged parliamentary deadlock over Brexit while it governed in minority with the support of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). This situation led to the resignation of the Prime Minister, Theresa May, and the selection of Boris Johnson as Conservative leader and Prime Minister in July 2019. Johnson could not induce Parliament to approve a revised withdrawal agreement by the end of October, and chose to call for a snap election, which the House of Commons supported via the Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019. Opinion polls up to polling day showed a firm lead for the Conservatives against the Labour Party throughout the campaign.

The Conservatives won 365 seats; many of their gains were made in long-held Labour seats, dubbed the 'red wall', which had registered a strong 'Leave' vote in the 2016 EU referendum. Labour won 202 seats, its lowest number and proportion of seats since 1935. The Scottish National Party (SNP) made a net gain of 13 seats and won 3.9% of the UK vote (translating to 45% of the popular vote in Scotland), resulting in 48 out of 59 seats won in Scotland. The Liberal Democrats improved their vote share to 11.6% but won only 11 seats, a net loss of one since the last election. The DUP won a plurality of seats in Northern Ireland. There, the SDLP and Alliance regained parliamentary representation as the DUP lost seats.

The election result gave Johnson a mandate to formally implement the UK’s departure from the European Union on 31 January 2020 and to repeal the European Communities Act 1972, thereby ending hopes of the Remain movement of overturning the result of the 2016 referendum. Labour's defeat led to Jeremy Corbyn conceding defeat and announcing his intention to resign, triggering a leadership election won by Keir Starmer. For Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson, the loss of her constituency's seat compelled her to resign as well, triggering a leadership election. The party's leader in Wales, Jane Dodds, was also unseated. For the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, her party's landslide victory in Scotland led to renewed calls for a second independence referendum. In Northern Ireland, nationalist MPs outnumbered unionist ones for the first time, although the unionist popular vote remained higher (43.1%). Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow resigned the Speakership as a result of the election being called, and the current Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, was subsequently elected.

Contents

 * 1Background
 * 2Date of the election
 * 2.1Voting eligibility
 * 2.2Timetable
 * 3Contesting political parties and candidates
 * 3.1Great Britain
 * 3.2Northern Ireland
 * 3.3Electoral pacts and unilateral decisions
 * 3.4Marginal seats
 * 3.52017–2019 MPs standing under a different political affiliation
 * 3.6Withdrawn or disowned candidates
 * 4Campaign
 * 4.1Campaign background
 * 4.2Policy positions
 * 4.2.1Brexit
 * 4.2.2The environment
 * 4.2.3Tax and spending commitments
 * 4.2.3.1Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis
 * 4.2.4Other issues
 * 4.3Party positions in the event of a hung Parliament
 * 4.4Tactical voting
 * 4.5Canvassing and leafleting
 * 4.6Online campaigning
 * 4.6.1Veracity of statements by political parties
 * 4.7Television debates
 * 4.8Campaign events
 * 4.9Third-party campaigns
 * 5Religious groups' opinions on the parties
 * 6Endorsements
 * 7Media coverage
 * 7.1Party representation
 * 7.2Dominant issues
 * 7.3Gender balance
 * 8Members of Parliament not standing for re-election
 * 9Opinion polling
 * 9.1Predictions three weeks before the vote
 * 9.2Predictions two weeks before the vote
 * 9.3Predictions one week before the vote
 * 9.4Final predictions
 * 9.5Exit poll
 * 10Results
 * 10.1Analysis
 * 10.2Summary
 * 10.3Full results
 * 10.4Voter demographics
 * 10.4.1Ipsos MORI
 * 10.4.2YouGov
 * 11Seats changing hands
 * 11.1Seats which changed allegiance
 * 11.2Table of which were open seats
 * 12Reactions in political parties
 * 13See also
 * 14Footnotes
 * 15References
 * 16Further reading
 * 17External links
 * 17.1Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019
 * 17.2Party manifestos