However, because you’re completely confident that the Labour candidate is going to win regardless of what you do, there may be some value in sending the party a message. Corbyn went into the campaign with the lowest net satisfaction ratings of any opposition leader since the late 1970s (Ipsos Mori). ACT’s standout result this year has been five percent.That’s a lot for a party that won less than 14,000 votes last election, but it’s still very much bush league. Looking at the options available to voters, there is no reason to think the current pattern won’t hold. Significant effort and manpower went into the trophy seats of Boris Johnson’s Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat and Iain Duncan-Smith’s Chingford and Woodford Green, both of which the Tories held.Andy McDonald says democratic processes under threat as BBC joins in biasOur specialists look into series of pre-election pledges, from health to education and media policyNo 10 boycotts Today programme and considers decriminalising non-payment of licence feeShadow chancellor suggests his preferred choice as new Labour leader is Rebecca Long-Bailey

Some activists complained that Momentum, which was a powerful campaigning force in 2017, focused its efforts only on the ultra-marginal seats and those that had a candidate aligned to its politics. There was a lot of discussion of tactical voting in this campaign, with pro-Remain websites pushing people towards it in order to stop Brexit. It would be an unlikely first in modern times.Newsroom is committed to giving our journalists the time they need to uncover, investigate, and fact-check tough stories.

But there’s a first time for everything. The travails of New Zealand First and the Greens can be least partially attributed to the curse of being junior partners in a Labour-led government. Caroline Flint, who lost her seat in Don Valley, said the party had not taken the right approach considering the number of leave-voting seats it represented in the country.A regular line trotted out by opposition parties, particularly by the Conservatives and the Brexit party during the election was that Labour had taken its traditional working-class support base for granted. Let’s say you are a centrist voter who could vote for National or Labour but, like most of the country, are not all that interested in the upscale gentry liberalism of the Greens. You see that National and ACT are far, far behind Labour and the Greens. Rallies were held in safe Birmingham and Bristol but also marginals such as Telford and Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland. Corbyn’s unpopularity, a muddled manifesto and its Brexit stance cost the party dearLabour has suffered one of its worst general election results in living memory with dozens of seats that the party had held on to for decades Shadow cabinet figures such as Richard Burgon were quick to praise the Labour leader’s decency and integrity in broadcast interviews overnight – but after the exit poll came in many candidates said that on the doorstep it was his lack of popularity that cost them. So you vote for NewLabour instead. Liberated from the need to win a relative majority in single member geographic constituencies, small parties were supposed to flourish and ensure power would be forever bridled. Despite promises to tax billionaires to fund investment in public services that would have helped those on lower incomes, Labour’s offer failed to convince voters in old coal, steel and manufacturing towns.

Criticism of the Government’s response is not new - but we’re lurching in a dark direction. If Auckland Central voters want the Greens’ Chlöe Swarbrick, they’ll elect her irrespective of party political deals, writes Liam Hehir.

Labour was aiming for a majority and spread its base wide, perhaps making its mission too expansive. Photo: Lynn Grieveson. After all, why risk a protest vote when it could be used to keep an opponent out of office?

This ACT has not been subject to this, of course, as an opposition party.

The party’s chair, Ian Lavery’s frank assessment was telling of the rift that has existed within the shadow cabinet over its policy to renegotiate a Brexit deal with the EU within three months and put it to a public vote within six months should Labour have won a majority. You would go so far as to say, even, that she’s a kind of conservative. Vilification of Corbyn in broadcast media 'fuelled election defeat' – shadow ministerFrom the NHS to Brexit: what can we expect from Johnson's government?Boris Johnson threatens BBC with two-pronged attack'I own this disaster': John McDonnell tries to shield CorbynMichael Gove promises Brexit trade deal with EU by end of 2020John McDonnell says Jeremy Corbyn will be gone in 8 to 10 weeks – as it happenedNorthern Ireland’s sectarian parties punished by rise of the non-alignedJohn McDonnell says he will not be in next shadow cabinet - video Another way of looking at it is that it helps choose who will not be the government. The £160,000 reason why your children will vote Labour in today's election Save It is age, not politics, that is driving voter decisions when they go the polls. Photo: Lynn Grieveson.Liam Hehir is a writer and newspaper columnist from the rural Manawatu and a former National Party activist.No political party will ever get an absolute majority of the seats in Parliament.So goes the dogma - and there has been reason to believe the doctrine sound, given that the last time one party won a majority of all votes was 1951 and that was under the MMP was supposed to put paid to the two-party duopoly forever.

On Thursday 12th December there is going to be a general election in the UK. The free broadband was really unpopular.

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