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The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on 12 December 2019 to elect all 650 members of the House of Commons, including 18 seats in Northern Ireland. 1,293,971 people were eligible to vote, up 51,273 from the 2017 general election. 62.09% of eligible voters turned out, down 3.5 percentage points from the last general election. [1]
The 2019 Indian general election in Uttar Pradesh was held between 11 April and 19 May 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha. The election results were declared on 23 May which saw the BJP led alliance winning majority of seats.
Most national opinion polls do not cover Northern Ireland, which has different major political parties from the rest of the United Kingdom. This distinction is made in the tables below in the area column, where "GB" means Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), and "UK" means the entire United Kingdom.
This is inspite of both alliances being part of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) [2] The UDF swept the elections winning 18 out of 20 seats, one less than in 2019. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won in Thrissur , their first ever Lok Sabha seat in Kerala, while the remaining seat was won by LDF.
The final turnout stood at 67.11 per cent, the highest ever turnout recorded in any of the general elections till date. The percentage is 1.16 per cent higher than the 2014 elections whose turnout stood at 65.95 per cent. [147] Over 600 million voters polled their votes in 2019 Indian General elections.
The election was called on 29 October 2019, when its date was fixed as 12 December. In the European Elections in Wales of June 2019, the Brexit Party, newly formed, had taken 32.5% of the votes and won two seats, Plaid Cymru had come second with 20% and one MEP, Jill Evans, and Labour had finished third, with 15.3% and also one MEP, Jackie Jones.
The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 May 2015 to elect 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons.It was the first of three general elections to be held under the rules of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 and was the last general election to be held before the United Kingdom voted to end its membership of the European Union (EU) in June 2016.
In other constituencies the Alliance vote was generally down slightly from their peak in 2019, but higher than any previous elections. The UUP gained a seat in the House of Commons for the first time since 2015 , with the election of Robin Swann in South Antrim , Swann achieved the highest majority in South Antrim since 1997 (7,512).