The results are here and Keir Starmer He is on track to become Britain’s next Prime Minister.
The nationwide exit poll, which is not 100% accurate but rarely strays too far, has predicted a huge majority for the Labor Party about him Conservatives of 279 seats, a majority that practically all polls had been predicting for months.
Labour to win 410 seats in exit poll, PM says Mr SunakThe Conservatives in England will win 131 seats and the Liberal Democrats are in third place on 61. There are 650 up for grabs. If the exit poll results are true, Labour’s victory will be almost as large as Tony Blair’s momentous win in 1997. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party is forecast to win 13 seats, far exceeding expectations, making it the country’s fourth-largest party.
Starmer, Sunak and hundreds of candidates across the UK will spend the next few hours anxiously watching the accuracy of the exit poll. Unlike pre-election day polls that track voting intention, this huge national survey asks voters directly at polling stations who they have just voted for and is therefore far more accurate.
The first precincts are expected to announce winners in about an hour, with the final overall result likely to be announced in the early hours of the morning.
Starmer’s landslide victory, which would end 14 years of Conservative rule, is hardly surprising, though Labour has spent the past six weeks warning voters that the polls are not a foregone conclusion. Starmer has led Labour since the disastrous previous election defeat in 2019. He lacks charisma and has angered those on the party’s left with a series of radical policy U-turns, but he is widely regarded as a go-to man who has led the party from obscurity to its current electoral force.
An exit poll predicts that Keir Starmer’s Labour Party will win 410 seats in the UK. general election is projected onto BBC London Broadcasting House. Image: OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images.
After the disastrous reigns of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, Sunak’s 18 months in office have seen a steady course, though there have been few changes. He ran a vigorous campaign, but it was riddled with gaffes. including the announcement of the elections in the rain and the decision to abandon D-Day celebrations early, while having to deal with the resurgence of Donald Trump’s friend Nigel Farage. In the political sphere with his party Reform UK.
The information restrictions that have been in place for the past 15 hours as Britons voted have now been lifted and viewers can tune in to the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky News or even GB News to see how things unfold overnight. Our primer on those preparations It can be found here and we will continue working on deadline.com.
Unless the exit polls have had a rare bad day, it looks like the UK will have a new Prime Minister in the morning.