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Sheffield Hallam is the only constituency in South Yorkshire that has not been a Labour stronghold, returning a Labour MP for the first time in 2017. In 2004 it had been regarded as the wealthiest constituency in the north of England [ 6 ] and, apart from a brief period between 1916 and 1918, when it was taken by the Liberals , it was a safe ...
UK General Election night: Everything to watch out for once the polls close 08:20 , Salma Ouaguira Election night starts the moment voting ends, with the exit poll at 10pm.
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 .
Polls of individual constituencies are expensive compared to national polling and were previously an infrequent practice in the UK. However, a large number of individual constituency polls were carried out in this period, most commissioned from independent polling providers by Michael Ashcroft , a Conservative peer and sponsor.
Sheffield Hallam was the only non-Labour South Yorkshire seat for many years, and was held by Nick Clegg for 12 years, until Labour gained the seat in 2017. For a 22-year period spanning 1997–2019, the Conservatives had no seats in South Yorkshire, until the 2019 election , when they gained three.
Reform finished in third place in terms of votes in East of England, North East England (just 0.4% behind the Conservatives), North West England, East Midlands, West Midlands and Yorkshire and The Humber. Most of the seats where Reform UK came second were in England, particularly in the north behind Labour and ahead of the Conservatives.
Mohammed stood as the Liberal Democrat candidate in the 2016 Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough by-election, where he finished third with 6.1% of the vote. [9]Mohammed was the Liberal Democrat candidate for the Sheffield Central constituency in the 2017 general election, coming fourth with 5.1% of the vote.
Leader Nick Clegg, who saw his nearly 30-point majority in Sheffield Hallam massively reduced to 4.2%, resigned on the morning of the election results. [ 5 ] UKIP made large gains in the percentage of votes, but failed to retain Rochester and Strood or take any other seats, leading to the resignation of party leader Nigel Farage .