Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has officially won the UK general election and is heading for a landslide, with results from more than 500 parliamentary seats declared.

Female candidates in recent UK General Elections were less likely to be retweeted than male candidates and less likely to receive media coverage, research shows.

A rural Worcestershire election was decided at random after recounts left two candidates tied on 889 votes in May ...

Reform now has two members on Pontypool Community Council, after Stephen Senior who was elected as a Conservative in February, defected to the party. Labour remains the largest party on the council ...

Britons were voting on Thursday in a parliamentary election that is expected to bring Keir Starmer’s Labour Party to power, after 14 years of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives.

The Labour Party last won a general election in Britain in 2005. Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair won a record majority for his party in 1997, when he secured a 179-seat majority in Parliament.

Slovakia has accused Britain of a £10m plot to meddle in its 2023 election. Robert Fico, the country’s firebrand prime ...

Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, attends the election count for the Clacton constituency in Clacton-on-Sea, England, on July 5, 2024. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images) ...

The British government said on Thursday it planned to give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all UK elections in a ...

In a live Q&A on the Markets Today blog, we asked experts from across the newsroom for their analysis of the July 4 UK election. Here is a lightly edited transcript of the conversation.