Polling expert Sir John Curtice reacts to general election results | LBC

Polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice reacts to the general election results.

Keir Starmer will become the UK's new Prime Minister after a Labour landslide swept away a string of Tory heavyweights.

Rishi Sunak conceded the election around 4:40am as cabinet casualties built up through the night.

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[Slackboy]

He's clearly putting the cart before the horse. The people who eroded the tories was the tories themselves.

[czarekp]

Ferrari in mourning.... How delightful

[kerryfry]

Tactical voting played a blinder. Lib dems gave us Labour supporters their votes. We Labour supporters returned the favour. F the tories and their client media. If you participated, you've helped this country massively!! Well DONE! ✊❤

[boba]

Can you possibly imagine supporting the Tories? I mean seriously, waking up in a morning and saying I’m a Tory and proud of it? It’s so alien to me that I just can’t comprehend it

[profdrrameshkumarbiswas]

Mordant Truss, Rees-Mugg and so many other despicable people LOST!!!!Hurray!!!

[burropoco]

01:49 Tactical voting is a big thing. Social media, and modern communications makes it so much easier and more effective than in previous elections. Yesterday I 100% used my vote wisely to keep the Tories out.

[maltesetony]

John Curtice is a voice of sanity among all the crazies.

[Alex-cwrz]

Keep in mind Reform had more coverage than the Lid Dems, Plaid, the SNP, all indpendents and Greens combined. Yet got 14% of the vote and 4 seats, where as they got 94 seats and 22% of the vote. Reform at times having equal air time to the tories and labour, there was talk of them being a 3rd party in the debates. This is why reform did so well.

[yannmaenden]

The number of constituencies In England has increased from 533 in 2019 to 543 in 2024, as part of the 2023 Boundary Review. ( -8 seats from Wales and -2 from Scotland ).

In England the Labour vote only rose slightly from 34.0% in 2019 to 34.4% in 2024
Their seats increased proportionally from 180/533 ( 37.8% ) to 348/543 ( 64.1% ).

Interesting fact: More people in England voted for Jeremy Corbyn in 2019 ( 9, 152, 039) than voted for Starmer ( 8, 353, 042 ) in 2024.

[gkntsmz]

Tories with excuses. Colour me shocked.

[chrisfinn]

[Thought experiment] each Reform seat effectively represents 1M people right now vs each Lib Dem seat representing 50K people! Think about it.

[pureb]

The exit poll highly over-estimated Reforms number of seats.

[michaelmouse]

Farage gets 4 seats. Lib Dems get over 70... Suddenly he starts quacking on about margins & pr. Didn't bother him about brexit. Hilarious

[Ken-yfzl]

And silly little Rishi has the audacity to say “sorry”. The problems were staring him in the face and he IGNORED them - and US !

[philipgumm]

Sir Keir did his job, he managed to win the election without over promising.

[decimal]

As it currently stands, progressive parties to the left or centre-left got around 6 million more votes than the right and centre right parties combined. The idea that the UK is a right-leaning country is simply not true.

[paulgibbons]

They stole Ukips brexit prospectus.
Promised action on imigration without delivering.
Maybe you should deliver what you promise.

[AndyM_YYY]

Can someone explain how voting for Farage is the logical reaction to Brexit being a disaster?

[ArjunGhag-ixte]

Love chats by politics professors John Curtice & Matt Goodwin etc

[DianeD]

Just look 👀 at Nic face.Need to get rid of him now.Shame on LBC.