Wed. Oct 2nd, 2024
Election latest: Multiple Conservative candidates facing gambling watchdog investigation

As well as our mammoth YouGov poll projecting 425 seats for Labour and 108 for the Conservatives, two other polls have been released today showing Labour maintaining its comfortable lead.

A poll by More In Common projected a Labour majority of 162, just shy of its 1997 and 2001 landslides, with the Conservatives falling just 155 seats, their worst total since 1906.

High profile losses forecast in the projection include Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps.

But the results were the most favourable for the Conservatives of the recent large-scale polls.

Meanwhile a poll by Savanta projects a drastic result for the Conservatives, with Labour winning 516 seats and the Tories falling to 53 MPs.

It puts Labour 19 percentage points ahead of the Tories, with Labour on 40%, the Tories 21%, Reform 14%, Lib Dems 11%, Green 4%, SNP 3% and other parties 5%.

The More In Common survey forecasts Reform UK winning no seats, with the Tories holding Clacton against Nigel Farage, but the poll is based on data collected between 22 May and 17 June and so includes the period before Mr Farage announced his decision to stand in the seat.

By Xplayer