MCC Votes & Seats Podcast – Election insight
Az MCC Politikatudományi Műhelyének beszélgetéssorozatában szakértők és politikusok segítségével azt elemezzük, hogy a különböző európai országokban aktuálisan zajló parlamenti és önkormányzati választásoknak mely szereplők a valódi nyertesei és mi tekinthető igazi győzelemnek a szavazások után.
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With the help of local guest experts, in the podcast series of the MCC Center for Political Science, we endeavor to analyze which actors are the real winners of the parliamentary elections taking place throughout Europe, and what exactly can be considered an ultimate victory after the ballot counts.
MCC Votes & Seats Podcast – Election insight
2024 United Kingdom General Election – What’s Next After Labour’s Landslide Victory?
It is not an exaggeration to say that 2024 is a year of elections around the world, including Europe where citizens have already voted or will vote in different elections in 30 EU or non-EU countries (excluding the EP election). The United Kingdom is not an exception either where a scheduled general election was held on 4 July 2024. In the voting taking place with a 7-percentage-point lower turnout compared to 2019 (59,9% vs. 67.3%), the Conservative Party has suffered a historical defeat, gaining only 23.7% of the votes (-19.9% after 2019) and losing roughly two-thirds of its seats in the House of Commons (121 vs. 372 in 2019). On the other hand, though it only improved its vote share by 1.6 percentage points after 2019 (to 33.8%), the Labour Party has won in a landslide as foreseen by commentators, attaining a comfortable majority with 412 seats, practically doubling its seat number after 2019 (201). As for the smaller parties, the Liberal Democrats can rightfully be satisfied seeing the surge in the number of their seats (8 in 2019 vs. 72 in 2024), and Nigel Farage’s Reform Party made it into the House for the first time with 5 seats and the third largest vote share (14.3%) after Labour, the CP, well ahead of the LibDems coming in fourth. The Scottish National Party, however, must be disappointed after losing 38 seats after 2019 to currently hold only 9.
In the new podcast episode of the Center for Political Science (MCC), Szabolcs Janik (senior researcher) had the honor of discussing the recent UK general election with Paul Gilfillan, senior lecturer in sociology at the Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. From the current episode, you can learn about, among other things, the campaign, the key messages and topics communicated by the parties, the interpretation of the results, voter behavior, the winners and losers of the election, the prospects of the government as well as whether we are witnessing a durable restructuring of the UK party system.
With the help of guest experts and politicians, in the podcast series of MCC’s Centre for Political Science we endeavor to analyze which actors are the real winners of the parliamentary and municipal elections taking place this year in different European countries and what exactly can be considered a real victory after the ballot counts.