British general election results for Parliament from 1802, the first election after the union between Great Britain and Ireland, right up to the 2019 election, which witnessed Boris Johnson's Conservatives claim a comfortable majority (the best since 1987).
Prior to 1832, when the Great Reform [...]
Exit polls, first results and the biggest winners and losers - here's how 'the most important election in a generation' unfolded overnight as it became clear the Conservative party was headed for a strong majority while Labour faced its worst results in decades.
What some of us already knew about t [...]
‘선거 방역’ 성공…총선 치른지 2주, 선거감염 '0명'
South Korea continues to make great strides in battling COVID-19.
The number of confirmed cases steadily falling... and there are no new infections related to the general election held two weeks ago.
Jang Tae-hyun fills us in [...]
Nearly one in three voters "held their nose" and voted for a party they considered the "lesser evil" in the last general election, according to a new report from the Electoral Reform Society.
The pro-democracy group claims December's election saw voters marginalised on an extraordinary scale, and l [...]
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reflected on his catastrophic general election defeat while expressing his hope that there can still be a "better world".
"This has been a difficult year for many of us,” he said in what will almost certainly be his last Christmas message as Labour leader.
Mr Corbyn a [...]
From 'Is Britain Broken? And what should we do in this election and beyond?'
By Gerry Hassan in the Sunday National, December 8th 2019
The United Kingdom is not a happy place at the moment. This has been a strange, unsatisfying election campaign. People feel ignored and distrustful of politicians. [...]
Tom Walker has revealed he will not be voting for Boris Johnson in next week’s General Election.
However, the singer-songwriter did not say which party he would be voting for.
He told the PA news agency on Sunday: “What a question. Definitely not for Boris. I will tell you that for free.”
W [...]
Election season can be a fruitful time for local councils to stick their hands out and plead with prospective governments to turn on the taps for their part of the country. With Labour and the Conservatives both falling over themselves to spend big, and prove to voters austerity is over, this may be [...]
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