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🚨 EXIT POLL 🚨
🌹 LAB: 410
🔵 CON: 131
🔶 LDEM: 61
➡️ RFM: 13
🟡 SNP: 10
🟢 GRN: 2
#GE2024
General Election 2024
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General Election 2024
@GenElectionUK
The 2024 General Election will be held on the 4th of July. Follow for stats and campaign coverage. Previously covered UK Politics in the 2010s. #GE2024
Joined April 2020
- This is good to see in a world of increasing polarisation…
- 🗓️ #OnThisDay in 2016, Labour MP Dennis Skinner was thrown out of the Commons by Speaker John Bercow for referring to then Prime Minister David Cameron as 'Dodgy Dave'.
00:00 - Tim Farron’s majority for the Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency: 🔶 2017: 777 🔶 2019: 1,934 🔶 2024: 21,472 #GE2024
- 🗓 #OnThisDay in 2019, Jo Swinson made her first and last speech to Lib Dem conference as the party’s leader. “There is no limit to my ambition for our party and our country and today I am standing here as your candidate for Prime Minister.”
- 🗓 #OnThisDay in 2019, Boris Johnson lost his working majority after Phillip Lee left the Conservatives to join the Lib Dems. (🎥 @Channel4News)
- Who can forget Brenda’s reaction to the news of a snap general election on this day five years ago... 😂 (🎥 @JonKay01)
- 🗓 #OnThisDay in 2016, the Lib Dems won the Richmond Park by-election as Sarah Olney defeated Zac Goldsmith by overturning a majority of more than 23,000. LDEM: 49.6% (+30.3) GOLDSMITH: 45.1% (-13.1) LAB: 3.7% (-8.7) (Changes with 2015 General Election)
- 🗓️ #OnThisDay in 2016, Labour MP Dennis Skinner was thrown out of the Commons by Speaker John Bercow for referring to then Prime Minister David Cameron as 'Dodgy Dave'.
- 🗓 #OnThisDay in 2015, three party leaders resigned within two hours of each other following disappointing results in the 2015 General Election: 🔴 Labour leader Ed Miliband 🔶 Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg 🟣 UKIP leader Nigel Farage #GE2015
- 🗓 18 April 2010 📊 A YouGov poll showed the Lib Dems ahead of both the Conservatives and Labour following Nick Clegg’s performance in the first TV debate. LDEM: 33% CON: 32% LAB: 26% #GE2010
- 🗓 28 April 2010 🔴 Prime Minister Gordon Brown is in Rochdale this morning meeting voters. 🔴 He is currently talking to Gillian Duffy - a lifelong Labour voter - with the pair discussing a range of issues including education and immigration.
