{"id":36569,"date":"2019-12-14T00:04:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T00:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=36569"},"modified":"2019-12-14T00:04:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T00:04:53","slug":"general-election-2019-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/general-election-2019-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"General Election 2019 round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The General Election 2019 took place on the 12th December. Millions of people took to their local polling stations to cast their vote as to who should lead the country.<\/p>\n

The night started controversially with the announcement of the\u00a0exit polls <\/a>which gave the Conservatives a promising lead, predicting them 368 seats. This was above the 326 seats they would need to win to get majority.<\/p>\n

As the results started to come in just before 11:30pm, Labour had a strong lead. To viewers, it suggested that the exit polls may not be close to the actual results. But by 3am it was very clear Conservatives were winning – they had an almost 100 seat lead on Labour.<\/p>\n

The Conservative Party\u00a0passed majority at 5am, meaning they had officially won the election (even though some constituencies were yet to be announced!).<\/p>\n

Below is a breakdown of the results:<\/p>\n

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Statistics taken from The Guardian and BBC<\/h5>\n
The ‘Other’ category refers to the Democratic Unionist Party, Sinn\u00a0F\u00e9in, Plaid Cymru, Social Democratic and Labour Party, Alliance, Brexit Party, Independents, Change and other smaller parties.<\/h5>\n
‘Change’ refers to the difference of votes between the 2017 and 2019 elections.<\/h5>\n

More of our election coverage:<\/strong><\/p>\n