2019 United Kingdom general election

House of commons
 Origin 1264: De Montfort´s Parliament – first time that civils take part in
the parliament
 First time independent in the 14. Century
 Take place at the palace of westminster
 650 members of parliament
 Legislative period: 5 years -> previous elections only with two-thirds
majority or vote of no confidence
Reasons for early election
 Took place on the 12. Nov 2019 instead of 2022
 Earlier Boris Johnson (prime minister) brought the idea of re-election in
September and October in but the but the fixed-term parliament act
didn´t agree
 29.10.2019 the Early Parliamentary General Election Bill was decided
-30.10.2019 the House of Lords and the Royal assent agreed too
 In the night from the 5.-6. Nov the existing house of commons was
disbanded
Electoral procedure
 650 constituencies
 Majority vote: the candidate with the most votes win (first-past-the post)
 No second ballot
 Average number of persons entitled to vote
England: 72.000 – Wales: 56.000
Election campaign issues
 Brexit, fiscal restraint policy and National Health Service
 Johnson: promised the end of the fiscal restraint policy
Election slogan “get Brexit done” -> 31.01.2020
 Corbyn: new agreement with the Eu and second referendum to vote
Promised nationalization in big area and capital expenditure of
400 Trillion pounds
 Liberal Democrats: work hard for the whereabouts in the EU
 Criticism: Johnson to unrealistic about the Brexit and Corbyn has no clear
viewpoint to the Brexit
Results
 Conservative Party (Johnson) got the biggest majority since the 1980´s
– 43,6%
 Labour Party (Jeremy Corbyn) baddest result in history – 32,5% ( loss
of 7,8%)
 Liberal Democrats (pro- European party) won because of the Labour
Party 4,4% (altogether 12,0%)
 In Scotland won the Scottish National Party 80% of the Scottish seats
in the parliament
 Required repeated the independence of Scotland
 In Northern Ireland won the pro-Irish nationalists for the first time
and not the pro-British union