Just In: Labour predicted to win UK election in landslide with 410 seats, according to exit poll

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Just In: Labour predicted to win UK election in landslide with 410 seats, according to exit poll

Keir Starmer will be Britain’s next prime minister with his Labour Party set to win a massive majority in a parliamentary election, an exit poll on Thursday indicated, while Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives are forecast to suffer historic losses, ending 14 years of Conservative rule.

Sir Keir Starmer’s party looks set to secure the win with an estimated 410 seats – equating to an overall majority of 170 – according to the poll by Ipsos UK for Sky News/BBC/ITV News.

This is compared to the Conservatives, who are projected to win just 131 seats, compared to 365 in the 2019 vote.

The poll suggests that while Labour have likely secured their anticipated landslide victory, more than doubling their result of 203 from five years ago, they may have fallen just short of the 179-seat majority Tony Blair won in 1997.

However, they may achieve the landslide on a smaller share of the vote than what Jeremy Corbyn secured in 2017.
Meanwhile, both the Conservative share of the vote and their seat tally could be the lowest in the party’s history, falling below the 156 won in 1906.
The Liberal Democrats are also projected to win more than five times the number of seats that they secured at the last election, going from 11 to 61 in the exit poll.