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UK General Election 2024: The Results & Aftermath
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DynamicSpirit
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Margaret Thatcher's old Finchley seat has gone to Labour
DynamicSpirit
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Looks very certain now that the LibDems will replace the SNP as the 3rd party in the Commons. LibDems currently on 33 seats, and look likely to go up to about 60-ish, SNP on 4 seats and looking like they'll be on 10 or less.
brad465
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I don't know if those two and any others who have lost seats as Labour candidates will return ASAP, but I think many of the independents who have won on the Gaza issue are unlikely to last the full parliament. Either because they have some skeletons in their closet and/or do something outlandish while an MP that forces them to step down early, and/or the current Gaza conflict ends well before the next election and they don't find any will to stay on any longer. I also expect any that do survive to lose the next election, especially if they've been poor local MPs.
GusB
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Sunak keeps his seat. How long before there's a by-election, though?
Purple Train
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Jeremy Hunt seems to have held his seat.
Pakenhamtrain
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Surely after that thrashing the Tories are telling him to nick off
If he resigned as leader of the party, it doesn't mean he'd have to resign as an MP too. Plenty of previous PMs have remained in the Commons after election defeat.
Mcr Warrior
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= "Father of the House"? (And so presides over the election/re-election of the Speaker of the House of Commons in the new Parliament).
He won't be leader by the end of the weekend, possibly the end of today. But it would be quite a move for him to be kicked out of the party and even then he could sit as an independent.
That being said I can't see him hanging around long. He'll do a David Cameron and stick in Parliament for a few months, perhaps six months at the most, and then slink off.
brad465
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The Victorian Haunted Pencil is out!!!!
DynamicSpirit
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Labour have now passed the winning margin of 325 seats. And the Tories are still only on 70!
Purple Train
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Just a shame that the defeat of Rees-Mogg wasn't 30 seconds earlier, then it would have been the result that gave Labour its 326th seat!
Gloster
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Having just woken up, I will answer this one as no one seems to have done so. I think that you still had to pass through one Conservative constituency, which I think was the predecessor to Sunak’s current one.
Wouldn’t this have been the Speaker at Chorley?
Well, a good few Conservatives getting their just desserts, but a few surprising Labour losses.
Cross City
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Never thought I’d be happy to see somebody lose their job but NE Somerset having a 76% turnout to throw JRM into the long grass has me beaming with joy.
Quite possibly. Peter Bottomley has lost in Worthing West.
Purple Train
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I can't think of any MP serving from earlier than 1983, although I haven't a clue who was sworn in first!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_MPs_by_seniority_(2019–2024)
Edward Leigh is ahead as he has retained Gainsborough and was sworn in before Jeremy Corbyn in 1983.
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Three out of four in the end. Not bad!
DynamicSpirit
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Well this time round, looking at the BBC's map of results - there are still a lot of gaps where seats have yet to declare, but already you can travel from almost anywhere along the South Coast of Wales to Berwick-upon-Tweed entirely through Labour, LibDem or Plaid Cymru seats.
Purple Train
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Ros Atkins for the BBC has suggested that there is a chance that Truss may finish third in South-West Norfolk. 
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