Labour has won a landslide victory in the general election, ending 14 years of Conservative rule, the exit poll suggests. Sir Keir Starmer’s party looks set to secure the win with an estimated 410 seats – equating to an overall majority of 170 – according to the poll by Ipsos UK for Sky News/BBC/ITV News.
This is compared to the Conservatives, who are projected to win just 131 seats, compared to 365 in the 2019 vote.The poll suggests that while Labour have likely secured their anticipated landslide victory, they may have fallen just short of the 179-seat majority Tony Blair won in 1997. However, they may achieve the landslide on a smaller share of the vote than what Jeremy Corbyn secured in 2017.
Meanwhile, both the Conservative share of the vote and their seat tally could be the lowest in the party’s history, falling below the 156 won in 1906.
The Liberal Democrats are also projected to win more than five times the number of seats that they secured at the last election, going from 11 to 61 in the exit poll.
To form a majority government in the Commons, a party needs to win at least 326 seats. It appears the Conservatives have suffered heavily in places where more than a third of households have a mortgage – a reflection perhaps of the damage that the Liz Truss “fiscal event” had.
It also looks as though Reform may win more seats than many polls suggested they would, although how many seats they will win is highly uncertain.
