Political Evidence - Political Parties (vote share e.c.t.)

Question 1

After the 1983 general election, what was the vote share and number of seats held for the Conservative Party?

Answer 1

397 seats on 42% of the vote

Question 2

After the 1983 general election, what was the vote share and number of seats held for the Labour Party?

Answer 2

209 seats on 28% of the vote

Question 3

After the 1997 general election, what was the vote share and number of seats held for the Conservative Party?

Answer 3

165 seats on 31% of the vote

Question 4

After the 1997 general election, what was the vote share and number of seats held for the Labour Party?

Answer 4

418 seats on 43% of the vote

Question 5

After the 1997 general election, what was the vote share and number of seats held for the Lib Dems?

Answer 5

46 seats on 17% of the vote

Question 6

After the 2017 general election, what was the vote share and number of seats held for the Labour Party?

Answer 6

262 seats on 40% of the vote

Question 7

What % of the vote did the Conservative and Labour Party jointly achieve in the 2017 general election

Answer 7

82% of the vote

Question 8

In the 2019 general election, what was the vote share and seats achieved by the Conservative Party?

Answer 8

365 seats off 43% of the vote

Question 9

In the 2019 general election, what was the vote share and seats achieved by the Labour Party?

Answer 9

202 seats off 32% of the vote

Question 10

In the 2019 general election, what was the vote share and seats achieved by the Lib Dems?

Answer 10

11 seats off 12% of the vote

Question 11

In the Westminster FPTP system in 2019, what % of the vote and how many seats did the SNP achieve?

Answer 11

48 seats off 4% of the vote

Question 12

In the Westminster FPTP system in 2017, what % of the vote and how many seats did the SNP achieve?

Answer 12

35 seats off 3% of the vote

Question 13

In the 2016 Scottish Elections, what % of the vote and how many seats did the SNP achieve?

Answer 13

63 seats off 46% of the vote

Question 14

In the 2021 Scottish Elections, what % of the vote and how many seats did the SNP achieve?

Answer 14

64 seats off 48% of the vote

Question 15

In the 2017 Northern Irish Assembly Elections, what % of the vote and how many seats did the Social Democratic Labour Party achieve?

Answer 15

12 seats off 11.9% of vote

Question 16

In 1983, how many votes did the Conservative Party lose but what was their majority?

Answer 16

Lost 700,000 votes but got a 144 seat majority

Question 17

In the 2019 General Election, what % rise of the vote did the Lib Dems achieve and what did their seats fall too?

Answer 17

Vote share rised by 4.5% to 11.5% but seats fell from 12 to 11

Question 18

In the 2019 General Election, what % of the vote did the SNP achieve and how many seats did they get?

Answer 18

4% of the vote but 48 seats

Question 19

In the 2022 Local Elections, how many seats net did the Green Party gain?

Answer 19

72 - more than Labour

Question 20

In the 2022 Northern Irish Assembly Election, how many seats did Sinn Fein get?

Answer 20

27 seats

Question 21

In the 2022 Northern Irish Assembly Election, what % of the vote did Sinn Fein get?

Answer 21

29%

Question 22

In the 2022 Northern Irish Assembly Election, how many seats did the DUP get?

Answer 22

25 seats

Question 23

In the 2022 Northern Irish Assembly Election, what % of the vote did the DUP get?

Answer 23

21%

Question 24

In the 2022 Northern Irish Assembly Election, how many seats did People Before Profit get?

Answer 24

1 seat

Question 25

In the 2022 Northern Irish Assembly Election, what % of the vote did People Before Profit get?

Answer 25

1.2%

Question 26

In the 2022 Local Elections, what % of the vote did the Liberal Democrats achieve?

Answer 26

19%

Question 27

In the 2022 Local Election, what was the combined vote of the Labour and Conservative Party?

Answer 27

65%. | It was 85% in the 2017 General Election