2020 Parliamentary General Election

The 2020 General election was called by Uk Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after he lost his parliamentary majority. With Labour, SNP, Liberal Democrats and the Greens calling for Article 50 to be revoked after No deal was rejected on October 20, weeks before Britain was due to leave the European Union. This Election was to be fought solely on Brexit and Boris argued he needed a large majority to overturn the binding vote against No Deal. However their was the fear the Conservatives could lose the election if the Brexit Party split the Brexit electorate.

This was the fourth successive election victory for the Conservatives and had regained a slim majority, since losing it in 2017. Due to Labour's poor result losing almost a quarter of their support and 29 seats since 2017, Jeremy Corbyn resigned as Labour leader. The Brexit party also managed to enter parliament, gaining 3 seats with Nigel Farage entering parliament on his 8th attempt but were blamed for splitting the Conservative vote preventing them gaining a huge majority.

 2020 General Election Results 

Boris Johnson (Conservatives) - 11,645,653 / 34.0% (-8.4%)

Jeremy Corbyn (Labour) - 10,446,835 / 30.5% (-9.5%)

Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats) - 5,206,292 / 15.2% (+7.8%)

Nigel Farage (Brexit Party) - 3,288,184 / 9.6% (N/A)

Caroline Lucas (Greens) - 1,267,321 / 3.7% (+2.1%)

Nicola Sturgeon (SNP) - 1,233,069 / 3.6% (+0.6%)

Gerald Batten (UKIP) - 171,259 / 0.5% (-1.3%)

Others - 993,306 / 2.9% (-1.0%)

34,251,921 (72.97%)

 Seat Makeup 
 * Conservatives / 326 Seats (+8)
 * Labour / 233 Seats (-29)
 * SNP / 40 Seats (+5)
 * Liberal Democrats / 26 Seats (+14)
 * Brexit Party / 3 Seats (N/A)
 * Others / 23 Seats (N/A)