Election results 2019: Boris Johnson returned as PM with all constituencies declared
Boris Johnson will remain prime minister with a comfortable majority, as numerous Labour heartland seats fall to the Conservatives. Find out what happened in every constituency.
Total seats won
Conservative
365+66
Labour
203-42
SNP
48(+13)
Lib Dem
11(-10)
Green
1(+0)
Others
22(-27)
Summary
Boris Johnson's Conservative party has secured a majority by seizing seats from the Labour party in its traditional heartlands in the north and midlands. Johnson remains prime minister and should now be able to get his Brexit deal through parliament. After a disastrous night, Jeremy Corbyn has said he will not lead the Labour party into the next election. Meanwhile the Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson and the DUP Westminster leader Nigel Dodds have lost their seats.
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| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net | Vote share | Change | Total votes |
| ConservativeCon | 365 | 75 | 9 | +66 | 43.6% | +1.2% | 13,966,565 |
| LabourLab | 203 | 13 | 55 | -42 | 32.2% | -7.8% | 10,295,607 |
| Scottish National PartySNP | 48 | 14 | 1 | +13 | 3.9% | +0.8% | 1,242,372 |
| Liberal DemocratLib Dem | 11 | 3 | 13 | -10 | 11.6% | +4.2% | 3,696,423 |
| Democratic Unionist PartyDUP | 8 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0.8% | -0.1% | 244,128 |
| Sinn FéinSF | 7 | 1 | 1 | +0 | 0.6% | -0.2% | 181,853 |
| Plaid CymruPC | 4 | 0 | 0 | +0 | 0.5% | +0% | 153,265 |
| Social Democratic and Labour PartySDLP | 2 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 0.4% | +0.1% | 118,737 |
| GreenGreen | 1 | 0 | 0 | +0 | 2.7% | +1.1% | 865,697 |
| AllianceAlliance | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.4% | +0.2% | 134,115 |
| BrexitBrexit | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | 2% | +2% | 642,303 |
| IndInd | 0 | 0 | 23 | -23 | 0.6% | +0.2% | 196,843 |
| ChangeChange | 0 | 0 | 5 | -5 | 0% | +0% | 10,006 |
| OtherOther | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | 0.8% | -1.6% | 264,002 |
About this election
The House of Commons is the main lawmaking body for the United Kingdom (the other is the unelected House of Lords). It consists of 650 members, each of whom is elected by a geographical constituency of roughly equal population.
In each constituency, the candidate with the largest number of votes wins. There is no need to win 50% of the vote, and votes for other candidates are in effect lost. This is known as first-past-the-post voting.
The Commons also chooses the prime minister. By convention, the Queen invites the leader of the largest party to form a government. The prospective prime minister needs to have the support of the majority of MPs. This is possible if they lead a party with an overall majority or have the backing of other parties.
A majority technically requires 326 MPs (half of all seats plus one), but a small number of MPs – including the Speaker, his deputies and the members of Sinn Féin – don’t usually vote. This means a working majority can be achieved with just under 50% of seats.
About these results
These results are provided by the Press Association. The change in total seats for each party is calculated based on the House of Commons at dissolution in November.
Notably this means that some seats will be chalked up as Conservative gains even though the party won them in 2017. Earlier this year, a number of Conservative MPs were sacked for voting against Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans. They were then considered independents until parliament was dissolved. There are similar cases of MPs elected as Labour who no longer represented the party at the end of the session.
Other news outlets, such as the BBC, usually base their seat change numbers on the previous election so will report this metric differently.
However, the change in vote share here is calculated against the 2017 election. Finally: note that the Speaker's seat of Chorley (if he is re-elected) will be counted toward the Labour party total.
The map on this page is a type of cartogram, where each constituency has an equal size and weighting. This means that the most densely populated areas, such as London, are heavily distorted, but all seats are placed into the correct region or country.
