2019 United Kingdom general election

The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 7 May 2019. It resulted in the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, receiving a landslide majority of 110 seats. The Conservatives made a net gain of 29 seats, despite their vote share decreasing slightly by 0.1% to 39.1%. The Labour Party, led by Jeremy Corbyn since the resignation of former leader Ed Miliband, lost 3.3% in vote share, and 51 seats, taking their total to 162, their worst result since 1935, and the worst result for a united Labour party since 1924. The Scottish National Party, under First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon, experienced a surge in support after the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, and won 56 of Scotland's 59 Westminster seats, mostly at the cost of Labour, which had previously dominated Scottish representation in Parliament. The Liberal Democrats, led by former Labour MP Liz Kendall, despite having a slight increase in the popular vote to 22.6%, lost nearly half of their seats, including Kendall's own seat of Leicester West.