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Election Results 2019: The Key Points You Need To Know: What's Happened?

The Conservative Party won a decisive majority in the 2019 UK general election, capturing 364 seats. This was their largest victory since 1987. Key results saw Labour lose seats in their traditional strongholds to the Conservatives for the first time in decades. Boris Johnson will now form a new government and take the UK out of the EU by the end of January, while Jeremy Corbyn has resigned as Labour leader.

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Election Results 2019: The Key Points You Need To Know: What's Happened?

The Conservative Party won a decisive majority in the 2019 UK general election, capturing 364 seats. This was their largest victory since 1987. Key results saw Labour lose seats in their traditional strongholds to the Conservatives for the first time in decades. Boris Johnson will now form a new government and take the UK out of the EU by the end of January, while Jeremy Corbyn has resigned as Labour leader.

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Election results 2019: The key points you

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 BBC NEWS 13 December 2019

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Media captionBoris Johnson says he is "humbled that you have put your trust in me"

The Conservative Party has won a big majority after sweeping aside Labour in its traditional
heartlands.

Here are the most important points you need to know.

What's happened?
 The Conservative Party has won a majority of at least 78, its biggest general election
victory since 1987
 With one constituency left to declare, the Conservatives have 364 seats, Labour 203,
the SNP 48, the Liberal Democrats 11, the DUP 8, Sinn Fein 7, Plaid Cymru 4, the
SDLP 2, the Green Party 1, the Alliance Party 1
 St Ives, Cornwall, is yet to declare
 The SNP has won more seats than in 2017
 For the first time, nationalist parties in Northern Ireland have taken more seats than
unionists
 Nigel Farage's Brexit Party failed to win a seat

What now?
 Conservative leader Boris Johnson is promising to take the UK out of the EU next
month "no ifs, no buts"
 He has been to see the Queen to ask for permission to form a new government
 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he will not lead the party in any future election
campaign
 The Liberal Democrats will hold a leadership contest after Jo Swinson lost her
Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes

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What were the key results?


 The first big moment of the night came when the Tories took Blyth Valley in
Northumberland - a Labour seat since its inception in 1950
 The second shock came in Workington, in north-west England, held by Labour for the
last century except for a brief spell in the 1970s, went to the Conservatives
 Wrexham in north Wales - a Labour seat since 1935 - was won by the Conservatives
 For the first time in nearly 100 years, the Conservatives took Leigh in Greater
Manchester from Labour
 But Labour gained Putney in south-west London - an area that voted strongly for
Remain in the 2016 referendum - from the Conservatives
 The Conservatives won the key London seat of Kensington by only 150 votes

See the results in pictures here.

Our results page is here.

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