Almost all of the 650 UK constituencies have now declared their results, and Labour has been overwhelmingly voted to victory. But how many millions of people voted for each party?
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Keir Starmer enters 10 Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister
The results are in, and there’s a new Prime Minister in Number 10 in the form of Keir Starmer.
After an electrifying general election, Labour swept to victory by overturning a huge Tory majority and returning its highest number of MPs since 1997.
There were a number of surprises on the night – Jeremy Corbyn held on to his Islington North constituency despite a tight two-horse race between him and the new Labour candidate, who was confirmed after Corbyn was kicked out of the party.
And a number of Conservative big beasts were slain, including wannabe Tory leadership hopeful Steve Baker, who declared: “I’m free at last, thank god” after losing his seat.
But turnout fell to a new 20-year low, with just 59.9% of eligible voters turning out to the polls.
Here’s the latest breakdown in the number of votes cast for each party.
How many people voted for Labour?
Keir Starmer’s victorious Labour party won the popular vote with 33.9% of voters across the country marking an X in their ballot paper next to their Labour candidate’s name.
Labour have won 412 seats – with two left to declare at the time of writing – and while it’s the biggest landslide since Tony Blair’s election victory in 1997, back then the Labour party took 43.2% of the popular vote.
Number of overall votes: 9,660,081
How many people voted for the Conservatives?
With a crushing defeat – the worst in the party’s history – the Conservative party now becomes the official opposition after 14 years in power, with just 121 MPs returned to parliament.
A number of Tory big beasts have been booted out of their seats, including Britain’s disastrous shortest-serving PM Liz Truss, and they no longer hold any power in Wales.
In another record the party probably didn’t want to break, the popular vote fell to just 23.6% across the country – the first time in recent history it has fallen below 30%. It marks a 20-point drop since Boris Johnson stormed to electoral success in 2019.
Number of overall votes: 6,755,953
How many people voted for the Liberal Democrats?
The Lib Dems, led by Sir Ed Davey, delivered a storming 71 seats – a huge increase on its performance in 2019 when it returned just 11 MPs to parliament. Its record-breaking success saw the party win 12.1% of the popular vote, which is actually behind Reform’s percentage share.
Number of overall votes: 3,487,568
How many people voted for the Scottish National Party?
The 2024 general election will go down in SNP history as utterly disastrous, after John Swinney’s party lost a staggering 38 seats and ended up with just nine.
The SNP, which has struggled with internal turmoil in recent months, won just 2.4% of the popular vote.
Number of overall votes: 685,405
How many people voted for Plaid Cymru?
The Welsh party held on to all four of its seats and actually increased its share of the popular vote, which went from 0.5% in 2019 to 0.7%.
Number of overall votes: 194,811
How many people voted for Reform UK?
Nigel Farage’s Reform party exploded the Conservative vote, becoming the third party by vote share with 14.3% of the popular vote. Farage finally won the Essex seat of Clacton, on his eighth attempt at becoming an MP.
At the time of writing, Reform has won four seats – taking Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness off the Tories, and retaining Ashfield in Nottinghamshire which defector Lee Anderson previously won as a Tory.
Number of overall votes: 4,072,947
How many people voted for the Greens?
It was a good night for the Green party, which increased its number of MPs and boosted its vote share to a new high of 6.8% – a significant increase on 2019’s 2.9%.
The Greens won four seats – retaining Brighton Pavilion in East Sussex and adding Bristol Central, Waveney Valley and North Herefordshire.
Party co-leader Carla Denyer bagged the Bristol seat, defeating Labour shadow cabinet member Thangam Debbonaire by a majority of 10,000, while her co-leader Adrian Ramsay thrashed the Tories to take Waveney Valley, with a huge swing of 32.1%.
Number of overall votes: 1,931,880
