Election examples

Question 1

What was the voter turnout in the election?

Answer 1

60% (lowest since 2001)

Question 2

What was Labour’s result in the election?

Answer 2

-won 33% of the vote
-411 MPs (63% of MPs)

-Labour nearly doubled their seats since 2019
-highest number of seats won since Blair
-lowest vote share for any party winning a general election since post-war
-lower vote share than their loss in 2019

Question 3

What was the Conservative result in the election?

Answer 3

-23% of the vote
-121 MPs (19% of MPs)

-lowest ever vote share for the Conservatives
-lowest number of MPs since 1832

Question 4

What was the Liberal Democrat’s result in the election

Answer 4

-12% of the vote
-72 MPs (11% of MPs)

-highest number of seats in their history
-gained 60 seats from the Conservatives

Question 5

What was the SNP result in the election?

Answer 5

-3% of the national vote
-30% of the Scottish vote
-9 seats (down from 32)

-lowest result since 2015
-lost their 3rd party status to LibDems

Question 6

What was the Reform result in the election?

Answer 6

-14% of the vote
-5 MPs (0.8% of MPs)

-first time Reform won seats (compared to the Brexit Party and Reform: only ever won.1 seat)

Question 7

What was the Green Party vote result?

Answer 7

-7% of the vote
-4MPs (0.6% of MPs)

-best ever general election performance for the Green Party

Question 8

What was the Conservative and Labour vote share?

Answer 8

-57%
-lowest combined vote share since 1992

Question 9

What was the third party vote share?

Answer 9

-43%
-historically high
-highest number of 3rd party MPs ever

Question 10

The number of MPs that didn’t have a majority after the election?

Answer 10

-85% of constituencies have an MP who won less than 50% of the vote

Question 11

How did gender affect the vote?

Answer 11

Women:
-35% Labour
-26% Conservative

Men:
-34% Labour
-23% Conservative