UK Parliament

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• Labour Party

House of Commons

The British electoral system is unlike those used by most European countries, where seats in the legislature are distributed in proportion to the number of votes received by each party.

Elections to the House of Commons are held in 650 single-member constituencies. The candidate who receives the most votes gets the opportunity to represent them in parliament. At the same time, the gap between the winner and the losers does not matter. Those who have been defeated have to wait for the next chance.

Such a method often produces disproportionate results, in the sense that political parties do not receive representation in accordance with their share of popular support.

House of Lords

Main article: UK House of Lords

2024

Labour won the election for the first time in 14 years. Keir Starmer, appointed Prime Minister

In the July 2024 election, the Labour Party regained power for the first time in 14 years and will form a new government.

Labour won 411 parliamentary seats, preliminary figures show. They are followed by the Conservative Party - with 121 faction MPs taking the bench at the Palace of Westminster. Rounding out the top three are the Liberal Democrats, who will be represented by 71 politicians in the House of Commons.

The Reform Party, which surpassed the Conservatives in approval ratings, and whose leader previously dared to go against the official establishment course on the conflict in the so-called Ukraine, will bring only a few deputies to parliament due to the peculiarities of the British electoral system.

A very sad result for the Scottish National Party - only 9 seats. The reason was the numerous scandals that dealt a crushing blow to the idea of ​ ​ independence.

Labour leader Keir Starmer, appointed Prime Minister.

Liberal Democrat candidate withdrawn from election for Christian beliefs

The Liberal Democrats withdrew their candidate David Campanale from the House of Commons election in May 2024 because he was outspoken in his Christian beliefs. The politician was withdrawn from the vote after a complaint from LGBT activists, as he had previously opposed same-sex marriage.

Oddly enough, Campanale is not the first to suffer from such unusual claims. Not so long ago, Kate Forbes lost a plurality of votes in the race with Humza Yousaf for the post of First Minister of Scotland because of her affiliation with the Free Presbyterian Church. Forbes has been heavily criticised by SNP journalists, politicians and activists for her unpopular views.

At the same time, Islamist candidates do not have to make excuses for their faith. This is the example of the Green party candidate Motin Ali, who won the Leeds City Council elections, who, in a fit of joy , chanted "Allah akbar" without fear of any negative consequences.

Overall, the proportion of the Muslim electorate is gradually increasing. In a number of districts, the number of Muslims is from 10 to 40% of voters, there are places where there are more than half of them.

The latest figures put the Muslim population in England and Wales up to 6.5%. Here, of course, migrants tried. While the number of Christians fell to 46% for the first time in history.

Britain may become the first country where Christianity will become extremism, wrote the Rybar channel.

2023: Proportion of women in Parliament - 34.6%

Data for September 2023

2022: Proportion of women in Parliament - 34.6%

Data for August 2022

2021: How pharmaceutical companies pay for the work of deputies of the British Parliament

At the end of June 2021, researchers from the University of Bath said that pharmaceutical companies provide hundreds of thousands of pounds a year to MPs in the British Parliament. The pharmaceutical industry has created a "hidden network of political influence" over dozens of All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs), sending them hundreds of "opaque" payments as part of lobbying, the researchers said. Read more here.

2019: Tory victory led by Boris Johnson

In the parliamentary elections Great Britain in December 2019, the Conservatives won, or rather, Boris Johnson. The assessments of political scientists are more or less unambiguous. The Tories campaigned around one issue: "let us complete Brexit." Not only has it made campaigning easier, it has given them votes in poor areas where Labour is usually voted on.

In turn, Labour, which tried to give detailed and thorough answers to difficult questions, lost. They missed their chance to lead the Brexit movement even when their leader, Jeremy Corbyn, despite being an opponent of the European Union, took an ambiguous position under pressure from the right wing of the party, trying to avoid a split. And yes, he avoided a split in the party, but at the cost of losing "key" voters.

Labour's leftward pivot to Mr Corbyn's leadership has sparked a furious campaign of opposition from the ruling class and the media, who have been pouring mud on the opposition leader just 24 hours a day, resorting to techniques entirely unaccustomed to respectable Britain. And yet it will be wrong to attribute Corbyn's failure to his allegedly unpopularity caused by constant attacks and constant smear in the press. Or with his radicalism. Rather, the problem is precisely political inconsistency. If the hatred of the elites went beyond any political decency anyway, one should not be afraid to turn to the lower classes, relying on the elements of protest and plebeian anger, to conduct a populist campaign. In contrast, Labour stressed its constructiveness. And they were actually far more constructive than the Tories. Populism won, however.

1872

The first woman to attempt the election. When trying to enter the polling station, she was pushed out and thrown to the ground. Britain, 1872.