General election: vote share of political parties in the UK 2017

Published by Daniel Clark, Sep 14, 2018
This statistic shows the vote share of political parties in the general election in the United Kingdom in 2017. The Conservative Party had gained the greatest vote share, with 42.2 percent of all votes for the party under leadership of Theresa May. By comparison, the Labour Party had won a similarly large share of votes, with a further 40 percent of all votes for Jeremy Corbyn's party. Together, the Conservatives and the Labour Party made up 82.2 percent of all votes, with a further 7.4 percent of votes for the Liberal Democrats.
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Vote share of political parties in general election in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017
Share of votes
Conservative42.2%
Labour40%
Liberal Democrats7.4%
Scottish National Party3%
UKIP1.8%
Green Party1.6%
Democratic Unionist Party0.9%
Sinn Féin0.7%
Plaid Cymru0.5%
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