What a crazy election result. Quite how the voters managed to give a landslide majority to Labour on barely one-third of the vote, I'm not quite sure - but they managed it! Great results for the… (View Post)

Here's a stat for you. Labour have received less than 100,000 more votes in GE 2024, than John Major's Tories did in 1997. (View Post)

I make it the least number of votes the Tories have received - in terms of absolute number of votes - since the 1923 general election, more than 100 years ago, before universal suffrage. The populati… (View Post)

Labour had some large increases of the vote where they needed them. They were +14.4pp to defeat Rees-Mogg, for example. (View Post)

Nobody is going to care about that. People will care about their local MP being elected with less than one-third of the vote. The winner in South West Norfolk won with only 26.5% - nearly 3/4 of the … (View Post)