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The election resulted in the third hung parliament since the Second World War, elections in February 1974 and 2010 having previously resulted in hung parliaments. Sinn Féin maintained its abstentionist policy. [287] Policy around Brexit and the EU receiving most coverage overall (10.9%), and national events that happened during the campaign period (namely, the terrorist attacks on Manchester Arena and in the area of London Bridge), along with controversies over Trident, brought policy issues around defence and security to the fore (7.2%). [161] Labour's shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, stated that the party would replace the existing Brexit white paper with new negotiating priorities that emphasise the benefits of the single market and customs union, that the residence rights of EU nationals would be guaranteed and that the principle of free movement would have to end. [148][149][150] The previous coalition government had commissioned a review by Andrew Dilnot into how to fund social care. Summary. [196][197] Labour later stated that the £300 million cost would be funded by reversing cuts to capital gains taxes, although it was noted that the party had also pledged some of those savings towards other expenditure plans. On election day, urged its readers to vote for whoever would beat the Conservatives in their constituency. After achieving just 1.8% of the popular vote, down from 12.7% in 2015, and failing to win any seats, Paul Nuttall resigned as UKIP leader on 9 June. [409] Remain voters tended to favour Labour, with the party particularly gaining among Remain voters who previously supported other parties, despite perceived uncertainty over its position on the single market. Britain Elects maintained a 'nowcast' – a projection showing what the result would be if held today – of seats based on historical data as well as national and regional polling. 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[195] Labour's proposal to employ 10,000 new police officers was overshadowed when Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott cited incorrect figures in a widely publicised gaffe in an LBC interview on 2 May on how it would be funded. [309][287][310] After the results were in and the Conservatives had won by a much smaller margin, on air Channel 4's Jon Snow said, "I know nothing, we the media, the pundits and experts, know nothing". [223] The party reportedly targeted seats which had voted to remain in the EU, such as Twickenham, Oxford West and Abingdon, and Vauxhall. This is the results breakdown of the 2017 United Kingdom general election. Points of criticism included the initial decision to call the election (which Lynton Crosby had advised against); the control of the campaign by a small team of May's joint chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, who were more experienced with policy work than campaigning; the presidential style of the campaign focusing on the figure of Theresa May, while most of the Cabinet were sidelined (particularly the exclusion of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond, with reports that May would sack him after the election);[447] and a poorly designed manifesto that offered little hope and the contents of which were not shared with Cabinet members until shortly before its release. Shock result as UK election returns hung parliament - as it happened. This was the closest result between the two major parties since February 1974 and their highest combined vote share since 1970. [418] Looking at information of constituency-level voting in England between 2005 and 2017, patterns of voting confirm the relevance of identifying new categories of social class alongside traditional political divides. [185] The manifesto was noted for its intervention in industry, lack of tax cuts and increased spending commitments on public services. The Conservatives stood in 637 seats, Labour in 631 (including jointly with the Co-operative Party in 50)[61] and the Liberal Democrats in 629. Election results plotted on a map showing equal-size constituencies, showing winning party in each. [70] The Liberal Democrats had already selected 326 candidates in 2016 and over 70 in 2017 before the election was called. Seat change: -47. Jeremy Corbyn replaced Ed Miliband as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition in September 2015, and was re-elected leader in September 2016. Don't bank on it' in, J. Firmstone, 'Newspapers’ editorial opinions: stuck between a rock and a hard place' in, Aljosha Karim [76], After coming second in the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election earlier in 2017, UKIP leader Paul Nuttall contested Boston and Skegness. UKIP stood in 377 constituencies, down from 624 in 2015, while the Greens stood in 468, down from 573. [94], Notwithstanding national arrangements, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens, and UKIP indicated they might not stand in every constituency. The campaign was interrupted by two major terrorist attacks: Manchester and London Bridge; thus national security became a prominent issue in its final weeks. 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. [93] Labour ruled out an electoral pact with the SNP, Liberal Democrats and Greens. [245] On 19 April, the BBC and ITV announced they planned to host leaders' debates, as they had done in the 2010 and 2015 elections, whether or not May took part. McDonnell hits back at claims Russian bots helped Labour in 2017 election Shadow chancellor compares ‘farcical’ Sunday Times story to smears against Kinnock in 1992 Published: 29 Apr 2018 Eunice Goes, ‘Jez, We Can!’ Labour's Campaign: Defeat with a Taste of Victory, Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 71, Issue suppl_1, March 2018, Pages 59–71, S. Cushion, 'Conventional wisdom distorted TV news coverage of campaign' in, D. Deacon et al., 'A tale of two leaders: news media coverage of the 2017 General Election' in, S. Banaji, 'Young people and propaganda in the wake of the 2017 election' in, S. Barnett, 'Is our national press a fading dinosaur? 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[222], Central themes of the Liberal Democrat campaign were an offer of a referendum on any eventual Brexit deal and a desire for the UK to stay in the single market. Newly created combined authority mayors were directly elected in six areas of England: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Greater Manchester, the Liverpool City Region, Tees Valley, the West Midlands, and … [254] Instead Amber Rudd appeared for the Conservatives. [32], The key dates are listed below (all times are BST):[33], The cost of organising the election was around £140 million – slightly less than the EU referendum, of which £98 million was spent on administrative costs, and £42.5 million was spent on campaign costs.[52]. [206] Corbyn stated that he would halt all weapons sales from the UK to Saudi Arabia citing the violations of human rights in the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. [243], Within hours of the election being announced, Corbyn, Farron and Sturgeon called for televised debates. The Conservatives win a 12-seat majority in parliament as Labour are almost wiped out by the SNP in Scotland and the Liberal Democrats suffer major losses. [145] He also declined to answer whether as prime minister he would use nuclear weapons if the UK was under imminent nuclear threat.[147]. [180], In a speech in Tynemouth the next day, May said Labour had "deserted" working-class voters, criticised Labour's policy proposals and said Britain's future depended on making a success of Brexit. Schapals, 'The UK digisphere and the 2017 election' in, P. Dorey, 'A tale of two leadership campaigns' in, K. Parry, 'Seeing Jeremy Corbyn and not seeing Theresa May: the promise of civic spectatorship' in, C. Beckett, 'Did broadcast stage-management create a vacuum for social media?' [295] An exception, when the Conservative Party received more negative coverage than Labour, was during the third week of the campaign, when the Conservatives released their manifesto, proposed a controversial social welfare policy (which became known as the "dementia tax") and subsequently made a U-turn on the proposal. 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Published 10 June 2017. After securing 3.8% of the vote and one MP in the previous general election, Green Party leader Natalie Bennett was succeeded by joint leaders Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley in September 2016. [235][236] On 16 May the Liberal Democrats proposed an entrepreneurs' allowance, to review business rates and to increase access to credit. [304] According to analysts, a bias was evident during Jeremy Paxman's leaders debates, with 54% of airtime devoted to Conservative issues and 31% to Labour's. [167] The repeated use of the phrase "strong and stable" in the Conservatives' campaigning attracted attention and criticism. Nottinghamshire County Council Election 2017. [17], On 18 May, The Independent reported that more than 1.1 million people between 18 and 35 had registered to vote since the election was announced on 18 April. [199] The following day Labour outlined plans to ban junk food TV adverts and parking charges at NHS hospitals. [244] The Prime Minister's office initially opposed the idea. Election 2017: The result in maps and charts. [100], In Northern Ireland, there were talks between the DUP and UUP. [191][192] Corbyn emphasised Labour's support for a "jobs-first Brexit" that "safeguards the future of Britain's vital industries". [24], Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn supported the early election,[25] as did Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron and the Green Party. [104] The Conservatives held the safe seat of Sleaford and North Hykeham in December 2016. In a surprising result, 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 Labour made a net gain of 30 seats with 40.0% (its highest vote share since 2001). Smaller parties that contested the 2015 election and chose not to put forward candidates in 2017 included Mebyon Kernow, the Communist Party of Britain, the Scottish Socialist Party, and the National Front. With thirteen seats, the Scottish Conservatives became the largest unionist party in Scotland for the first time since 1955. [81][82][83][84] Former UKIP donor Arron Banks suggested a "patriotic alliance" movement. The result was the last in the country to be declared after exhausted poll workers were sent home for rest after two recounts. Vote share %: 0.4. Results. [190], Corbyn launched the Labour campaign focusing on public spending, and argued that services were being underfunded, particularly education. [294] After the election, the press turned on Theresa May,[297] who had run on a campaign that platformed her as a 'strong and stable' leader, and they described her as 'weak and wobbly', 'robotic', the 'zombie prime minister', and a 'dead woman walking'. [430] A Survation poll of 1,036 adults online for The Mail on Sunday showed 49% of people wanting her resignation, with 38% against. Electoral commission data[454] shows that in 2017 Q2, total donations for each major political party, over £7,500, are as follows: For results by county/region and analysis, see, For complete results by individual constituency, see, Scottish independence and the future of the UK, Members of Parliament who did not stand for re-election, Sinn Féin MPs abstain from taking their seats in the, Or, in the case of a British citizen who moved abroad before the age of 18, if his/her parent/guardian was on the. Theresa May stayed as prime minister. Richmond Park, which the Liberal Democrats had won in a 2016 by-election, was narrowly lost to the Conservatives. [202], A draft copy of Labour's manifesto was leaked to the Daily Mirror and The Daily Telegraph on 10 May. Lab hold Dagenham & Rainham with a 11.6% majority 6 years ago. The Labour Party won 262 seats, and 40.0% of the vote, up from 232 seats and 30.4% of the vote in 2015. Thus, several approaches are used to convert polling data and other information into seat predictions. They gained Clacton from UKIP and Southport from the Liberal Democrats in addition to the six gains from Labour. [407] In terms of education, YouGov found that a one-point lead for the Conservatives among university graduates in 2015 had flipped to a 17-point lead for Labour in 2017. [91][92] On 22 April the Liberal Democrats also ruled out a coalition deal with the Conservatives and SNP. [19] This removed the power of the Prime Minister, using the royal prerogative, to dissolve Parliament before its five-year maximum length. The Conservative Party and the Labour Party have been the two biggest parties since 1922, and have supplied all Prime Ministers since 1935. [406], In terms of social grade, Labour increased its share of middle-class voters (defined as ABC1) by 12 percentage points compared to the previous election while the Conservatives increased their share of working-class voters (C2DE) by 12 percentage points. [351] UKIP major donor Arron Banks, who had earlier indicated his intention to stand in Clacton to defeat Douglas Carswell, withdrew in favour of the UKIP candidate after Carswell announced he would be standing down. [28] UKIP leader Paul Nuttall and First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones criticised May for being opportunistic in the timing of the election, motivated by the then strong position of the Conservative Party in the opinion polls. This statistic displays the way in which electorates voted during the General Election in the United Kingdom (UK) on June 8th, 2017. For example, right-wing papers The Sun and the Daily Mail complained that the audience at the BBC run leaders' debate was pro-Corbyn, and the Daily Mail asked why the topic of immigration, one of the Conservatives favoured issues, was barely mentioned; and right-wing websites Breitbart London and Westmonster said BBC coverage on Brexit was pro-EU. [221] With the polls closing, Nicola Sturgeon told the Today programme that the SNP could support a Labour government "on an issue-by-issue basis" in the event of a hung parliament and she would be open to forming a "progressive alternative to a Conservative government". Of those, 591,730 were under the age of 25.[18]. [88], Within a few days of the election being announced, the Green Party of England and Wales and the SNP each proposed to collaborate with Labour and the Liberal Democrats to prevent a Conservative majority government. From a 21-point lead, the Conservatives' lead began to diminish in the final weeks of the campaign. [297][304] The London Economic had the most shared election-related article online during the campaign. These saw large gains by the Conservatives, and large losses by Labour and UKIP. Turnout in the 2017 election is likely to have been roughly 78 per cent. 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The Conservatives, Greens, and four other minor parties also stood. [357] Almost all polls and predictions were for seats in Great Britain only, with Northern Irish parties being either absent from the totals or counted as "other". The Conservatives remained the largest single party in terms of seats and votes, but were short of a parliamentary majority. In by-elections on 23 February 2017, Labour held Stoke-on-Trent Central but lost Copeland to the Conservatives, the first time a governing party had gained a seat in a by-election since the Tories took Mitcham and Morden in 1982. General Election 2017 results; Party Seats Net change in seats +/-Votes Vote Share Net percentage change in seats +/- % Party. [65], Former employment minister Esther McVey was selected to contest Tatton. [288][289] Mick Temple, professor of Journalism and Politics at Staffordshire University, characterised the negativity Corbyn and Labour received during this election as more hostile than that which Ed Miliband and Labour received during the 2015 general election. [159] After the hung result led the Conservatives to seek DUP support for a minority government, this rhetoric was mocked by opponents. ", "Our CCHQ election audit: the rusty machine, part two. [189], The Conservative Party manifesto at the 2017 general election proposed repealing the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. The UK's first-past-the-post electoral system means that national shares of the vote do not give an exact indicator of how the various parties will be represented in Parliament. [68] On 7 May, Steve Rotheram announced he was standing down as MP for Liverpool Walton following his election as Liverpool City Region mayor, leaving five days to appoint a candidate by close of nominations. [174], On 7 May the Conservatives promised to replace the 1983 Mental Health Act, to employ an additional 10,000 NHS mental health workers by 2020 and to tackle discrimination against those with mental health problems. Use the menu at the top of the page to pick between election years. [287] While in the first two weeks of the election period policy made up less than half of all broadcast coverage,[287] over the whole campaign policy received more coverage in all media than during the previous election,[288] particularly after manifestos were published in the third week, when close to eight in ten broadcast news items were primarily about policy issues. The government announced that it intended for the next parliament to assemble on 13 June, with the state opening on 19 June. [93][157] Similar messages against a potential Lib–Lab pact were credited with securing a Conservative win in the 1992 and 2015 elections. [299][300][301][302][303] The BBC has been criticised for its coverage during the election campaign. [253] Corbyn announced on the day that he would attend the debate in Cambridge, calling on May to do the same. [247], Broadcaster Andrew Neil separately interviewed the party leaders in The Andrew Neil Interviews on BBC One, starting on 22 May with Theresa May. [188] She criticised the "fake" portrayal of the policy in recent days by Labour and other critics, who had termed it a "dementia tax". [287] A number of newspaper columnists expressed similar sentiments. [319][293][309] In a YouGov poll, 42% of the general public said that TV was most influential in helping them choose, or confirming their choice in, whom to vote for; 32% said newspapers and magazines; 26%, social media; and 25%, radio. Since February 1974 and their highest combined vote share Net percentage change in seats %! And Ulster Unionist party ( UUP ) lost all their seats candidates opposing austerity a! 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