How Labour did it: key moments from the UK 2024 general election night

Keir Starmer has said the 'sunlight of hope' is bathing Britain again after Labour won a landslide UK election victory to bring a crushing end to 14 years of Conservative rule. Here's how his victorious night unfolded


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[prod]

How labour did it. they did it because it’s either labour or conservatives.

[rossow]

Labour didn't do it. The Tories were just so bad. Labour only gained 1.8% on Corbyn's historical failure. A 35% vote share is the lowest of any winning party. Shows just how bad the Tories have been.

[michaelyounes]

Sunak is relieved he can now ride away in the sunset...

[PersonalPariah]

"How labour did it"

1. Exists
2. Not the other party

[michaelhorne]

So Labours vote share increased by 1.6% and as aresult it gets 100% increasse in seats share. That's some cool democracy. Looking forward to doing 1.6% more work in my job and getting a 100% pay rise.

[robinanna]

I didn't vote for Labour but i dont feel anywhere near as negatively as most people in this comments.

[milliondogs]

It will be interesting to watch the 'fully costed manifesto' steadily crumble over the next 6 months.

[tz]

Interesting facts:
1. Only 60% of eligible UK voters bothered to vote.
2. Of those that bothered, Labour took one third of the votes.
3. THAT MEANS 80% OF ELIGIBLE UK VOTERS DIDN’T VOTE LABOUR, AND THEY WON BY ‘LANDSLIDE’!😂

[stocko]

i bet the English channel`s busy today.

[English_lifestyles]

Reminder that in Europe, only the UK and Belarus use FPTP. That the LD got 1 seat for every 50k votes received while Reform got 1 seat for every 1 million votes received is daft.

[lolcat]

it's not hard to be better than the conservatives it's a really low bar

[riquelmeone]

As a non-UK person, why is there such a difference between the percentage each party got and the seat distribution in parliament? Labour got more than half of the seats but just around 33% of the votes. That doesn’t add up.

[satyasyasatyasya]

Despite Greens going from 1 to 4 seats, and Reform having the same, Greens still going ignored and supressed in 3... 2...
Media is so rw

[David_Bower]

One third of the votes, almost two thirds of the seats, FPTP is looking less defensible than ever.

[OranageFlash]

The country is about to take a nose dive off a cliff

[Srikantaiah_Jaya]

From here on people of UK has to deal with Labour pain 😅😂🤣

[Fragzz]

0:43 I agree😂 he said he has had enough of politics

[stocko]

wow here`s a new one the Guardian has a comments section today, i wonder why?

[HistoryfanAD]

Nothing will change, Labour will raise taxes, not deal with the illegal immigration and life in Britain will get harder for anyone who is not rich.

[Shiroya_Rumika]

Yay! More immigrants for the country!!! With him as our PM, you will feel UK became India or Syria