Labour Party Won UK’s General Election 2024

On July 4th the Labour Party emerged victorious in Unityedf Kingdom’s (UK’s ) general election by winning 407 of 650 seats.

Key Points

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer will be the next British Prime Minister after his Party secured a landslide victory in the UK general election, ending the 14-year reign of the Conservative Party led by Rishi Sunak.
In 2019, Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party secured a majority by seizing seats from the Labour Party in its traditional heartlands in the north and midlands.

UK Parliamentary Election System

Voters in 650 constituencies across the UK will elect members of parliament to the lower chamber, the House of Commons, via the first-past-the-post system.
To win each constituency and gain a seat in the House, candidates need to receive more votes than any of their competitors.
A party needs to win at least 50 percent of the seats – 326 – to secure a majority in the House of Commons and be asked to form a government by the monarch, King Charles III.
The members of parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Lords, are appointed rather than elected.