United Kingdom general Election results 2019 live by Party Candidates
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United Kingdom general Election results 2019 live by Party Candidates
The United Kingdom general Election results 2019 live is scheduled to be held on Thursday 12 December 2019. It is to be held under the provisions of the Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019, two and a half years after the previous general election in June 2017.
The 2019 election is due to be the first UK general election to be held in December since 1923, and was arranged at short notice in late October. Each parliamentary constituency of the United Kingdom elects one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons using the first-past-the-post voting system. This indirectly elects the government, which is formed by a party or coalition of parties that can command the confidence of a majority of MPs in the Commons. Both majority and minority governments are possible election outcomes.
United Kingdom general Election Results
Party and leader | Leader | Seats | Share | Count |
Boris Johnson
|
365 | 43.60% | 1,39,66,565 | |
Jeremy Corbyn
|
203 | 32.20% | 1,02,95,607 | |
Nicola Sturgeon
|
48 | 3.90% | 1242372 | |
Jo Swinson
|
11 | 11.60% | 3696423 | |
Arlene Foster
|
8 | 0.80% | 244128 | |
Mary Lou McDonald
|
7 | 0.60% | 181853 | |
Adam Price
|
4 | 0.50% | 153265 | |
Jonathan Bartley & Siân Berry Am
|
1 | 2.70% | 865697 | |
Nigel Farage
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Patricia Mountain
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3 | 2.00% | 700886 |
Dates United Kingdom general Election 2019
Further information: Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019
The deadline for delivery of candidates' nomination papers was 14 November. The election is scheduled for 12 December 2019, with polling stations opening at 7am and closing at 10pm.
This date occurred despite the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (FTPA), which introduced fixed-term parliaments to the United Kingdom, with elections scheduled on the first Thursday in May of the fifth year after the previous general election. This would have led to an election on 5 May 2022.On 29 October 2019, the House of Commons passed the Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019 which circumvented the FTPA so as to hold a December election. The House of Lords followed suit the following day, with Royal Assent the day afterward.
Due to the impasse about the Brexit withdrawal agreement, some political commentators in 2019 considered an early election to be highly likely. In January 2019 a vote of no confidence in Theresa May's government was called by the Labour Party. If passed, and no alternative government could be formed, this would have resulted in a general election, but this motion failed. After becoming Prime Minister in the summer, Boris Johnson made three attempts at a vote for an early general election under the terms of the FTPA, but each failed to achieve the required two-thirds supermajority.The eventually successful bill, which required only a simple majority to pass (though it could be amended during its passage through Parliament), was proposed by the Liberal Democrat and Scottish National parties on 28 October and adopted by the government the following day (albeit with a Thursday 12 December date rather than Monday 9 December proposed by the opposition parties). An amendment changing the date to 9 December failed by 315 votes to 295.The final Commons vote on the bill passed by 438 votes to 20.
The election would be the first UK general election in December since 1923, and the first general election to be held by virtue of an Act of Parliament.
Tuesday 29 October |
Passage of the Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019 through the House of Commons |
Wednesday 30 October |
Passage of the Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019 through the House of Lords |
Thursday 31 October |
Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019 receives Royal Assent and comes into force immediately. The Act sets 12 December as the date for the next parliamentary general election. |
Wednesday 6 November |
Dissolution of Parliament (the 57th) and official start of the campaign. Beginning of purdah. Royal Proclamation summoning a new Parliament and setting the date for its first meeting issued. |
Thursday 7 November |
Receipt of writ – legal documents declaring election issued |
From Friday 8 November |
Notice of election given in constituencies |
Thursday 14 November |
Nominations of candidates close |
Saturday 16 November |
Candidates lists are published for each constituency |
Thursday 21 November |
Deadline to register for a postal vote at 5pm (Northern Ireland)[33] |
Tuesday 26 November |
Deadline to register for a postal vote at 5pm (Great Britain)[33] |
Deadline for registering to vote at 11:59pm[33] |
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Wednesday 4 December |
Deadline to register for a proxy vote at 5pm. (Exemptions apply for emergencies.) |
Thursday 12 December |
Polling Day – polls open 7am to 10pm |
Friday 13 December |
Results to be announced for the majority of the 650 constituencies. End of purdah. |
Tuesday 17 December |
First meeting of the new (58th) Parliament of the United Kingdom, for the formal election of a Speaker of the Commons and the swearing-in of members, ahead of the State Opening of the new Parliament's first session. |
The Electoral system of United Kingdom
Each parliamentary constituency of the United Kingdom elects one MP to the House of Commons using the "first past the post" system. If one party obtains a majority of seats, then that party is entitled to form the Government, with its leader as Prime Minister. If the election results in no single party having a majority, there is a hung parliament. In this case, the options for forming the Government are either a minority government or a coalition.
United Kingdom party and Leaders
Leader |
Party |
Theresa May |
Conservative |
Jeremy Corbyn |
Labour |
Nicola Sturgeon |
SNP |
Tim Farron |
Liberal Democrats |
Arlene Foster |
DUP |
Gerry Adams |
Sinn Féin |
United Kingdom Past Elections Results
Great Britain
Major parties (parties with multiple MPs at dissolution or those that currently have multiple MEPs) that are contesting this election in Great Britain are shown in the table below with their results at the 2017 general election, ordered by the number of seats they won.
Party |
Party leader(s) |
Last election |
Seats at |
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% of |
Seats |
dissolution |
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votes |
|
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Conservative Party |
Boris Johnson |
42.40% |
317 |
298 |
Labour Party |
Jeremy Corbyn |
40.00% |
262 |
244 |
Scottish National Party |
Nicola Sturgeon |
3.00% |
35 |
35 |
Liberal Democrats |
Jo Swinson |
7.40% |
12 |
21 |
Change UK |
Anna Soubry |
New party |
5 |
|
Plaid Cymru |
Adam Price |
0.50% |
4 |
4 |
Green Party of England and Wales |
Jonathan Bartley |
1.60% |
1 |
1 |
Siân Berry |
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Brexit Party |
Nigel Farage |
New party |
0 |
Northern Ireland
While a number of UK parties organise in Northern Ireland (including the Labour Party, which does not field candidates) and others field candidates for election (most notably the Conservatives), the main Northern Ireland parties are different from those in the rest of the UK.
Some parties in Northern Ireland operate on an all-Ireland basis, including Sinn Féin and Aontú, who are abstensionist parties and do not take up any Commons seats to which they are elected. The only independent elected to Parliament in 2017, Sylvia Hermon, represented North Down but is not standing in 2019.
For the 2019 election, there are a total of 102 candidates in Northern Ireland.
Party |
Leader |
Last election |
Seats at |
Contesting seats |
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dissolution
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(out of 18 in total)
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% (in NI) |
Seats |
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Democratic Unionist Party |
Arlene Foster |
36.00% |
10 |
10 |
17 seats |
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Sinn Féin |
Mary Lou McDonald |
29.40% |
7 |
7 |
15 seats |
|
Social Democratic & Labour Party |
Colum Eastwood |
11.70% |
0 |
0 |
15 seats |
|
Ulster Unionist Party |
Steve Aiken |
10.30% |
0 |
0 |
16 seats |
|
Alliance Party |
Naomi Long |
7.90% |
0 |
0 |
18 seats |
|
Aontú |
Peadar Tóibín |
New party |
0 |
7 seats |
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NI Conservatives |
Neil Johnston |
0.70% |
0 |
0 |
4 seats |
|
(Leader in NI) |
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Green Party of Northern Ireland |
Clare Bailey |
0.90% |
0 |
0 |
3 seats |
|
People Before Profit |
None[n 15] |
0.40% |
0 |
0 |
2 seats |