LABOUR GET THE WORST "LANDSLIDE" IN HISTORY WITH JUST 1% OF ELECTORATE VOTING FOR THEIR POLICIES!

Labour: proud of being proud.

by Daniel Barge

Landslide elections in the UK are typically characterized by a party securing a significant majority of seats in the House of Commons, often with a relatively high share of the popular vote.

It seems however that the recent "landslide" won by Labour in the UK General Election is the crappiest landslide in British political history, with the winning party gaining a pathetic 33% of the vote (or 20% of the electorate) and relying on the blatantly dysfunctional UK electoral system to gain overwhelming power for the next 5 years.

Don't believe me? Well look at the stats. Here are all the landslide elections over the last 100 years, with the number of seats, ranked according to vote percentage:

1931 General Election

National Government (primarily Conservative) led by Stanley Baldwin

Vote Share: 55.0%

Seats Won: 554 out of 615

1959 General Election

Conservative Party led by Harold Macmillan

Vote Share: 49.4%

Seats Won: 365 out of 630

1945 General Election

Labour Party led by Clement Attlee

Vote Share: 47.8%

Seats Won: 393 out of 640

1924 General Election

Conservative Party led by Stanley Baldwin

Vote Share: 47.2%

Seats Won: 412 out of 615

2019 General Election

Conservative Party led by Boris Johnson

Vote Share: 43.6%

Seats Won: 365 out of 650

1997 General Election

Labour Party led by Tony Blair

Vote Share: 43.2%

Seats Won: 418 out of 659

1983 General Election

Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher

Vote Share: 42.4%

Seats Won: 397 out of 650

2001 General Election

Labour Party led by Tony Blair

Vote Share: 40.7%

Seats Won: 413 out of 659

2024 General Election

Labour Party led by Keir Starmer

Vote Share: 33.7%

Seats Won: 412 out of 650

As you can see Labour's "landslide" is something of a freak result caused by electoral anomalies and the fact that Reform UK played a successful "spoiler" role without winning much themselves. Combined, the Conservative and Reform UK vote would have been 39%, and would have created a landslide that would have destroyed Labour under the present electoral system. 

Even worse, almost nobody who voted Labour voted for Labour. A recent YouGov poll revealed the entirely vacuous reasons for the Labour vote.

Top 5 reasons why people voted Labour:

(1) Get the Tories out: 48%

(2) Country needs a change: 13%

(3) Agree with their policies: 5%

(3) To improve NHS4%

(4) Best-liked party with a change of winning: 4%

Only 5% of Labour voters actually voted Labour because of Labours' policies. Yes, that's 5% of 33.7%, which means that 1.6% of the voters or about 1% of the electorate actually voted for Labour and not against the Tories, etc., and with that Labour got around 60% of the seats. You couldn't make this up.