BREXIT and beyond ....: BBC: The key points you need to know - Election results 2019 (Not final

Friday, 13 December 2019

The Conservative Party has won a big majority after sweeping aside Labour in its traditional heartlands.

The Conservative Party has won a big majority after sweeping aside Labour in its traditional heartlands.

Here are the most important points you need to know.

What's happened?

The Conservative Party has won a majority of at least 78, its biggest general election victory since 1987
With one constituency left to declare, the Conservatives have 364 seats, Labour 203, the SNP 48, the Liberal Democrats 11, the DUP 8, Sinn Fein 7, Plaid Cymru 4, the SDLP 2, the Green Party 1, the Alliance Party 1
St Ives, Cornwall, is yet to declare
The SNP has won more seats than in 2017
For the first time, nationalist parties in Northern Ireland have taken more seats than unionists
Nigel Farage's Brexit Party failed to win a seat

Conservative leader Boris Johnson is promising to take the UK out of the EU next month "no ifs, no buts"
He has been to see the Queen to ask for permission to form a new government
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he will not lead the party in any future election campaign
The Liberal Democrats will hold a leadership contest after Jo Swinson lost her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes

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The first big moment of the night came when the Tories took Blyth Valley in Northumberland - a Labour seat since its inception in 1950
The second shock came in Workington, in north-west England, held by Labour for the last century except for a brief spell in the 1970s, went to the Conservatives
Wrexham in north Wales - a Labour seat since 1935 - was won by the Conservatives
For the first time in nearly 100 years, the Conservatives took Leigh in Greater Manchester from Labour
But Labour gained Putney in south-west London - an area that voted strongly for Remain in the 2016 referendum - from the Conservatives
The Conservatives won the key London seat of Kensington by only 150 votes

Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson lost her Dunbartonshire East to the SNP by 149 votes
Long-serving Labour MP Dennis Skinner lost his seat in Bolsover, having first been elected there in 1970
Conservative Zac Goldsmith lost his seat in the London seat of Richmond Park to the Liberal Democrats
All 17 MPs who changed parties during the last Parliament, including Dominic Grieve, Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger and Anna Soubry, lost their seats
DUP Westminster leader Nigel Dodds lost his Belfast North seat to Sinn Fein
Labour's Caroline Flint was defeated by the Conservatives in Don Valley
Commentators had called her a future leader of the Labour Party, but 32-year-old Laura Pidcock lost her seat of Durham North West to the Conservatives