This was one of the most remarkable collapses for a political party in our history

5 July 2024, 06:52 | Updated: 5 July 2024, 12:10

The 2024 election has shattered records.

Labour has won a landslide victory, reversing its heavy defeat less than five years ago.

Its final majority will come close to Tony Blair's achievement of 1997, surpassing the landslides achieved by Clement Attlee in 1945 and Margaret Thatcher in 1983.

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A remarkable feature of its win is that its national vote share has barely moved from its 2019 level.

Despite this, the national swing from Conservative to Labour - over 11 percentage points - breaks Blair's 10.3 record set in 1997 and is more than double the 5.3-point swing Thatcher achieved in 1979.

Labour's small increase in national vote share and yet the largest swing points to the fact that it has benefitted from one of the most remarkable collapses for a political party in our electoral history.

There has been a 20-point drop in the Conservative national vote - shattering the previous post-war record established by the Liberal Democrats in 2015 after its painful crash out of the coalition.

The Conservative Party's national vote - likely to be 23% - means that fewer one in four supported it in 2024 compared with more than four in ten in 2019.

This is the first time in the modern era that it has fallen below 30%.

Its woeful performance can also be measured by the failure of 26 of its candidates to save their deposits by polling less than 5% of the constituency vote.