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The Sixteenth United Kingdom general election was held on 17 April 2019 to elect 36 members to the House of Commons. The election saw another large Conservative victory led by longtime leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Enzo Liddell-Grainger. The election was a landslide victory for the Conservatives and this election was regarded as their best result to date, with 75% of the seats in the House of Commons, until the party made an additional net gain of one seat in the following election. Labour saw a modest but ultimately minor gain of one seat.
The election saw a great polarisation of British politics and save for the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland which is actually a satellite party of the Conservatives and generally counted amongst their seat count, this was the first time in British history only two political parties returned MPs to the House of Commons. This is also the first time since the new first past the post electoral system first utilised in the Ninth United Kingdom general election that every seat has been filled in the Commons and there were no absent seats following the election; after the Fifteenth United Kingdom general election there was a single vacant seat.
Notable politicians to lose their seats this election include Liberal Democrat leader Thomas Cranmer in Cornwall and Devon, George Windsor the leader of UKIP amongst his many other endeavours in East Wales, SNP leader Jon Zhukov in Eastern Scotland, Reform leader Nathaniel Woodrow in West Wales all to the Conservatives with the exception of Windsor who lost his seat to his most former party Labour. Deputy Prime Minister Tucker L. Smith came very close to losing his Northern Scotland seat to the SNP.
Results[]
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Conservative, Unionist Allies & Speaker | Labour |