2/21/2023 0 Comments Election 2017 date up![]() ![]() If one party obtains a majority of seats, then that party is entitled to form the Government, with its leader as Prime Minister. See also: Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011Įach parliamentary constituency of the United Kingdom elects one MP to the House of Commons using the "first past the post" system. 11.4 Allegations of Russian interference.8.3 Predictions one week before the vote.8.2 Predictions two weeks before the vote.8.1 Predictions three weeks before the vote.7.1 Members of Parliament who did not stand for re-election.4.2.4 Scottish independence and the future of the UK.3.4 Electoral alliances and arrangements.The outcome of the election would have significant implications for the Brexit negotiations and led the UK Parliament into a period of protracted deadlock which would eventually bring about another general election two and half years later. The campaign was interrupted by two major terrorist attacks: Manchester and London Bridge thus national security became a prominent issue in its final weeks. Negotiation positions following the UK's invocation of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union in March 2017 to leave the EU were expected to feature significantly in the campaign, but did not as domestic issues took precedence instead. The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost all their seats. In Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) won 10 seats, Sinn Féin won seven, and Independent Unionist Sylvia Hermon retained her seat. The Green Party retained its sole seat, but saw its share of the vote reduced. In Wales, Plaid Cymru gained one seat, giving it a total of four seats. UKIP, the third-largest party in 2015 by number of votes, saw its share of the vote reduced from 12.6% to 1.8% and lost its only seat. The Liberal Democrats made a net gain of four seats. The SNP, which had won 56 of the 59 Scottish seats at the previous general election in 2015, lost 21. The Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Liberal Democrats, the third- and fourth-largest parties, both lost vote share media coverage characterised the result as a return to two-party politics. The election had the closest result between the two major parties since February 1974 and resulted in their highest combined vote share since 1970. It was the first election since 1997 in which the Tories made a net loss of seats or Labour a net gain of seats. The Conservative Party made a net loss of 13 seats despite winning 42.4% of the vote (its highest share of the vote since 1983), whereas the Labour Party made a net gain of 30 seats with 40.0% (its highest vote share since 2001, representing its highest increase in vote share between two general elections since 1945). From a 21-point lead, the Conservatives' lead began to diminish in the final weeks of the campaign. Opinion polls had consistently shown strong leads for the Conservatives over Labour. May said that she hoped to secure a larger majority to "strengthen hand" in the forthcoming Brexit negotiations. Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 an election had not been due until May 2020, but Prime Minister Theresa May's call for a snap election was ratified by the necessary two-thirds vote in the House of Commons on 19 April 2017. It was the first general election to be contested by either May or Corbyn May had succeeded David Cameron following his resignation as prime minister the previous summer, Corbyn had succeeded Ed Miliband who resigned following Labour's failure to win the general election two years earlier. The Conservative Party, which had governed as a senior coalition partner from 2010 and as a single-party majority government from 2015, was defending a working majority of 17 seats against the Labour Party, the official opposition led by Jeremy Corbyn. The governing Conservative Party remained the largest single party in the House of Commons but lost its small overall majority, resulting in the formation of a Conservative minority government with a confidence-and-supply agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) of Northern Ireland. The 2017 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 8 June 2017, two years after the previous general election in 2015 it was the first since 1992 to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections. ![]() ![]() Composition of the House of Commons after the election ![]()
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