UK election results 2024: winners and losers in London

The UK Labour party is on track to win a remarkable 410 out of the 650 of seats in the House of Commons, handing the left-wing party one of the biggest majorities in its history, according to an exit poll produced by Ipsos.

The result, if confirmed, represents a crushing defeat for the Conservative party that has led the country since 2010, under five separate leaders.

If confirmed, the result would mean Keir Starmer – the former public prosecutor who replaced Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in 2020 – could become Prime Minister as soon as Friday.

It’s bad news for incumbent Rishi Sunak, who may be called on to resign as leader of a party that’s perhaps endured its worst ever election result.

The landslide would draw a line under a tumultuous five years in British politics.  

It’s a period that saw the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and high inflation – and no fewer than three Conservative Prime Ministers, two of whom resigned in major scandals.  

The shortest-lived of those, Liz Truss, served for just 49 days, after her unfunded tax cuts sent financial markets into turmoil.  

Boris Johnson – who won the last December 2019 election with a healthy 80 seat majority – was pushed out after it was revealed he’d broken his own Covid lockdown laws by hosting parties at Downing Street offices. 

Polls have been predicting a Labour victory since the election was called in May, if not before – but the scale of the wipeout wasn’t known.   

If exit poll predictions of Conservatives gaining just 131 seats come true, it’s their worst result since at least 1918, when the dominance of the two modern-day parties began.  

Individual constituency results will be announced between now and tomorrow morning – determining the fates of individual MPs. 

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