Tories, Plaid Cymru, PAP, and Liberal Democrats gain in corrected general election results

Light losses for Labour, NUP and LPUK, whilst the Greens drop two seats.

mg9500 had the unenviable task of making the controversial announcements.

The Electoral Commission have revealed the final, corrected version of the results of last week’s general election after recounts were held across the country. The recounts came after Devolved Speaker mg9500 confirmed that an error in counting list votes had existed since December, and had pervaded every election since. No other results are expected to be changed or announced retroactively.



The changed results see the Conservative Party, Plaid Cymru, and the Liberal Democrats all gaining one seat from the previous total (though the Tories’ Northern Irish sister party, the Ulster Unionists, had gained a seat in a previous correction on the Northern Ireland list earlier today). Meanwhile, Labour, the National Unionists, and the LPUK dropped a seat each. The most adversely affected party were the Greens who dropped two list seats. One Love and the Classical Liberals both held steady on one and ten seats respectively.



The changes also saw a major coup for the People’s Action Party, with them picking up their first ever Parliamentary representative, winning a seat on the Scotland list. Constituency seats were unaffected by the error and have remained the same. The final tally of results is, therefore, the Conservatives on 24, Labour on 15, the Liberal Democrats on 15, the LPUK on 11, NUP on 10, Classical Liberals on 10, Greens on 7, Plaid Cymru on 4, SNP on 2, One Love on 1, and the PAP on 1.



Announcing that an error had been made at four minutes past twelve, Mr 9500 told the country that “there is an error in the results which may affect every regional list (and has done so since the 2nd Holyrood election). Please do not fill list seats until they are confirmed later.” This was further confirmed by the Speaker of the House of Lords, troels, who stated “The Electoral Commission will rectify the issue shortly.” The former Scottish First Minister also had the unenviable task of releasing the final results.



Backlash on twitter from various political figures has been fierce, with Green Shadow Home Secretary trevism initially tweeting “The electoral commission has a lot to answer for,” following this up after the results were confirmed with “Very very disappointed with the Electoral Commission’s mishandling of this general election. A lot of false hope created for a lot of good people.” LPUK member thisguy went further, tweeting “Absolutely disgraceful how the Electoral Commission has handled this. Every single one of the people involved should resign, and if they don’t, should be sacked.” When asked whether his party would privatise the commission, he replied that it needed “significant reform.” NUP MP R_Temple was more generous, defending the Commission, stating “Whilst I do agree this hasn’t been handled so well, I don’t think we should hound the electoral commission for a mistake.”



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