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OK, the first thing to say about #GeneralElectionUK 2024 is this: #Labour lost, and lost badly. They lost, in fact, HALF A MILLION VOTES compared to their 2019 result.
All the major parties, including the #LibDems, lost. Labour just lost less badly than either the #Conservatives or the #SNP.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2024-07-06-the-election-and-after/
The election, and after
In any election in a reasonably democratic voting system — such as that used for the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Senedd, for example, the number of seats in the resulting parliament assigned to a party is proportional to the number seats they w…Simon Brooke (The Fool on the Hill)