List of Alternate UK Elections with Alternate Leaders

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2008

John McDonnell becomes labour leader in 2007 resulting in one of the worst election results for labour and third in the popular vote.

Conservative and Unionist Party: David Cameron: 40%, 356 seats
Labour Party: John McDonnell: 25%, 194 seats
Liberal Democrats: Nick Clegg: 26%, 71 seats
Democratic Unionist Party: 0.6%, 8 seats
Scottish National Party: 1.7%, 6 seats
Sinn Fein: 0.6%, 5 seats
Plaid Cymru: 0.6%, 3 seats
Social Democratic Labour Party: 0.4% 3 seats
Green Party of England and Wales: 1%, 1 seat
Alliance NI: 0.2%, 1 seat
Speaker and Independent: 0.2%,2 seats
 
2014

The Liberal Democrat’s and Labour force a four year term limit on the length between elections. As a result the SNP and UKIP struggle to make traction and effect the result.

Labour 321 seats
Conservative 266 seats
SNP 25 seats
Liberal Democrat 16 seats
DUP 8 Seats
Sinn Fein 4 Seats
SDLP 3 Seats
Plaid Cymru 2 seats
UUP 2 Seats
Green Party of England and Wales 1 seat
Independent/Speaker 2 seats

A coalition of Labour and the Lib Dems likely to last until the next general election in 2018.
 
May's Nightmare--2017

With repeated Conservative gaffes and an awful debate performance by May, Labour is able to build up even more momentum, and gains nearly twice as many seats. This results in a temporary supply and confidence with SNP, PC and Greens before another election is held.

Conservative--296 -36
Labour--287 +56
SNP--31 -23
DUP--10 +2
LibDem--7 -1

SF--7 +3
PC--3 +0
Green--1 +0

 
2015 Rise of UKIP

UKIP retain their high polling numbers after the EU elections in 2014 resulting in a hung UK parliament.

All changes are from 2015

Conservative 23.1% 254 seats -76
Labour 24.4% 234 +2 seats
SNP 4.9% 58 +2 seats
UKIP 26.6% 56 +55 seats
Liberal Democrat 6.6% 23 seats
DUP 0.6% 8 - seats
Sinn Fein 0.6% - 4 seats
Plaid Cymru 0.6% 4 +1 seats
SDLP 0.5% 3 - seats
Green Party 6.9% 2 +1 seats

UUP 0.3% 2 - seats
Independent/Speaker 0.1% 2 - seats

Government formed between the Conservatives, UKIP and the Liberal Democrats on a short term basis until another election.
 
2005 Iraq nightmare

Due to a population which is very much opposed to the Iraq War both the Conservatives and Labour lose votes to the LibDems, Greens and UKIP

Labour 257 25%
Conservative 183 27%
Lib Dem 173 35%
Others 33 13%
 
2010 Cameron’s victory.

Menzies Campbell stays Lib Dem leader. As a result more people vote Conservative as they want a younger leader in the country.

Conservative 39.1% 331 seats
Labour 29% 245 seats
Liberal Democrat 20% 45 seats
Others 11.9% 30 seats
 
Brown goes to the country in mid-October 2007.

Labour: 31.5%; 287 seats; -69 (37 seats short of a majority)
Conservatives: 36.9%; 271 seats; +73 (53 seats short of a majority)
Liberal Democrats: 21.8%; 56 seats; -6
Others: 9.8%; 32 seats; +2

The election was called just prior to Northern Rock's liquidity issues emerging and this was a big issue during the campaign but the Labour campaign defended its handling of the economy by referring to the August 'Freeing Britain to Compete' report released by the Conservative's and endorsed by Cameron that called for the deregulation of mortgage finance, which it claimed would have made the emerging Northern Rock crisis far worse.

The election resulted in a hung parliament, with the Liberal Democrats as able to provide enough seats to support a government led by either Labour or the Conservatives. Negotiations lasted five days with the Liberal Democrats extracting significant concessions from both possible partners, though ultimately Charles Kennedy's personal relationship with Labour leader, Gordon Brown was key to them coming to an agreement and a Labour/Liberal Democrat coalition was formed with a key concession from Labour being passing electoral reform to change the voting system in general elections to Alternative Vote and Liberal Democrat ministers taking eight seats in Cabinet including Kennedy himself becoming Deputy Prime Minister.

Labour/Liberal Democrat Coalition: 53.3%; 343 seats (40 seat majority)

The UK weathering the global financial crisis relatively well with the economy bouncing back to 2%+ annual GDP growth by 2012. However, the financial crisis and the expenses scandal took a greater toll on Labour than it did its coalition partners. Though fortunately in order to secure the coalition an act was passed in parliament fixing the next election date as no earlier than May 2012. In the event, Brown took full advantage of the national post-Olympics positivity and waited until early October 2012 to go to the polls.
 
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Kenneth Clarke is Conservative leader in 2001

Labour: 38.5%; 392 seats; -26
Conservative: 34.2%; 194 seats; +29
Liberal Democrat 17.6%; 44 seats; -2
Others: 9.7%; 29 seats; -1

Due to a more modernised Conservative Party lead by Kenneth Clarke people were more confident in voting for him resulting in a greater seat gain for the Conservatives. However, Clarke resigned as leader afterwards due to not breaking the 2000 seat barrier. As a result Shadow Home Secretary Michael Howard would become Conservative leader in 2001 and would lead them all the way till resigning after the 2005 election. During this time the Conservatives modernised and became more in touch with the people. Unfortunately they would not win in 2005 and had to wait until 2010 when David Cameron would take them into coalition with the Lib Dems.
 
Puritan Party: 31,2%; 295 seats; -23
Levellers Movement: 29,7%; 279 seats; -36
Diggers Party: 18,4%; 29 seats; -287

Whigh Party: 11,5%; 16 seats; -300
Scottish Stuart Party: 3,4%; 6 seats; -310
Green Party: 3,1%; 3 seats; -313
Welsh Party: 2,7%; 2 seats; -314

Results of the seventy-third Election of the Republican Commonwealth of Great Britain in 2018: it produced a hung Parliament. After two-weeks of negotiations, the Speaker of Commons requested, as usually, a formal indication for the figure of Commonwealth Lord Protector to determine the candidates to be put on MPs vote: Puritans, Whigh and Stuartists put Puritan candidate Michael Gove at 317, only one vote on the majority, while Levellers, Diggers, Green and Welsh candidate John McDonnell was at 313. So Gove was elected, forming the first coalition Pretectorate since 1973. However, one year later, Gove past drug abuse was exposed and he was voted down from his own party and replaced by Amber Rudd.
 
YouGov Gets It Right (2015)
Average of May 2015 YouGov Polls (GB Votes Only)

LABOUR: 294 Seats (33.5%)
CONSERVATIVE: 273 Seats (33.7%)
SCOTTISH NATIONAL: 45 Seats (3.7%)
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: 16 Seats (9.0%)
GREEN: 1 Seats (4.8%)
UKIP: 0 Seats (12.5%)

Hung Parliament - Labour 32 Seats Short
 
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