2/650 Number of seats
The +/- figures are modelled on new district boundaries based on the results in 2019. If district boundaries were not changed, the +/- figures are calculated based on the defending party at the time of dissolution.
*326 seats are needed for an overall majority. A working majority requires a smaller number, as some members do not normally vote.
The first results are expected to be announced after 11:30 p.m.
| 2 | 0 | 48.3 | +4.3 | 38,867 | |
| 0 | 0 | 28 | – | 22,525 | |
| 0 | 0 | 14.5 | -18.7 | 11,635 | |
| 0 | 0 | 4.6 | -1.5 | 3,723 | |
| 0 | 0 | 4.6 | +1.8 | 3,683 |
How does a UK general election work?
The House of Commons is the primary legislative body in the United Kingdom, along with the unelected House of Lords. The House of Commons is made up of 650 members, each elected from a geographic constituency of roughly equal population.
In each district, the candidate who receives the most votes wins. He or she does not have to get 50% of the vote, and votes for other candidates are effectively lost. This is called single-member districts.
The House of Representatives also elects the Prime Minister. By convention, the monarch asks the leader of the largest party to form a government. A candidate for Prime Minister must have the support of a majority of MPs. This can be done by leading a party with a majority, or by having the support of other parties.
A majority technically requires 326 MPs (half the seats plus one) but a small number of MPs, such as the Speaker, Deputy Speaker and Sinn Féin members, do not normally vote, meaning that an effective majority can be achieved with just under 50% of the seats.
About these results
These results are provided by the Press Association.
Reassessing boundaries
Since the 2019 election, district boundaries have been reworked, and this election is being contested in largely new districts. Therefore, for these 573 seats, the 2019 election results are taken from modeled data that shows how people would have voted if these new districts had existed at the time. This modeled data comes from research by Colin Rallings, Michael Thrasher, David Denver, and Nicholas White, who modeled the old results and merged them with the new boundaries.
For the 77 constituencies that remain unchanged, a direct comparison is provided with the parties in the constituency at the time of the dissolution of Parliament.
As a result of the border review, the total number of seats per country will be 543 in England (+10), 57 in Scotland (-2), 32 in Wales (-8) and 18 in Northern Ireland (unchanged).
Seated Party
The party affiliation of a seat will be the winner of the 2019 model election results for seats created by boundary review, and the party at the time of dissolution for seats unchanged from 2019. This means that if a seat is unchanged from 2019 and a by-election is held, or if the MP is suspended or switches parties, this will be reflected in the ‘party affiliation’ of both the seat and party totals. If there are boundary changes and the seat is new, the Press Association does not take by-elections or defections into account.
Vote Share
Vote share figures are based on modelled results from 2019 for seats with boundary changes and historical results from 2019 for seats without boundary changes.
The change in votes for a seat is calculated against the 2019 model results, unless the seat is the same as in 2019, in which case it is calculated against the historical results.
Other notes
This methodology may differ from station policy and may result in slight differences in the number of party seat changes and in the “party change” messages for individual constituencies.
The Speaker’s constituency, Chorley, will count towards Labour’s total seat tally if re-elected.
A “proportional” map is a type of cartogram in which each constituency has equal size and weight, meaning that all seats are located in their correct region or country, although densely populated areas such as London may look very different to how they appear on a geographic map.
Illustration: Sam Carr
