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EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GE 2024 BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

https://www.tusc.org.uk/21082/07-07-2024/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-ge-2024-but-were-afraid-to-ask/

Now the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is publishing a statistical review of the election – The 2024 General Election Fact File – a draft report prepared by the TUSC national election agent Clive Heemskerk for the first post-election meeting of the TUSC all-Britain steering committee taking place on July 17th.

Including the TUSC candidates’ results, after discussion at the steering committee it will be published on the website’s Candidates Page as a public record – as has been TUSC practice for every election we have stood candidates in since 2011.

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Emperor

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It's a rather damning analysis written in the style of Citizen Smith:

The turnout projected for July 4th was the only the second time, after 2001, that participation in a general election had fallen to below 60% of registered voters since December 1918, when soldiers were demobilising from the trenches of world war one. (‘Projected’ turnout, as the final verified figures will not be released by the House of Commons Library until mid-July).

Of those who did turn out the combined share of the vote won by the two main parties of the capitalist establishment – the Conservatives and Sir Keir’s Tony Blair-style New Labour – was 57.4%. Never before, since the Labour Party first contested a majority of seats in the 1918 election, has the combined share for Labour and the Tories been so low.

Labour’s share of the vote rose (by 1.6% to 33.7%) over the figure (32.1%) recorded under Jeremy Corbyn in the 2019 election – ‘hurrah!’ says The Guardian, the Blairite Newsnight ‘experts’, and other unserious defenders of capitalism. But the absolute number of people who voted for Starmer’s Labour fell, to 9.7 million, even from the 2019 figure of 10.27 million; never mind the 12.88 million people who voted for Corbyn’s manifesto in 2017.

And Starmer’s Labour won the support of just 20.1% of registered voters on July 4th. No administration since the introduction of universal (male) suffrage in 1918 has ever governed with the support of a lower share of the total electorate.