UK Election Results

Labour's weak mandate and its unrealistic promises

Analysis

Labour has a weak mandate.

Labour won a total of 412 out of 650 seats. However, Labour’s absolute number of votes was just 9.69 million, compared to 10.27 million in the 2019 election, in which the Conservatives had won an 80-seat majority (with 43.6% of the vote). Labour Leader Keir Starmer received less votes than his supposedly unelectable pre…