Members of Parliament:
There is a total of 650 seats in the Parliament at Westminster. A party must win 326 seats to obtain overall majority. In 2015, the General Election was won by the Conservative party with a majority of 4. In 2016, the EU referendum took place.
The seating plan of the House of Commons consists of five rows of benches on each side, with the government party to the right of the Speaker and opposition parties to the left, but with room for only around two-thirds of MPs to sit at any one time.
The UK general election of 2017 took place on 8 June 2017. Each of the 650 parliamentary constituencies elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons, the lower house of Parliament.
In line with the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, an election had not been due until 7 May 2020, but a call for a snap election by Prime Minister Theresa May received the necessary two-thirds majority in a 522 to 13 vote in the House of Commons on 19 April 2017.
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UK General Election 2017:
Theresa May called this General Election to obtain certainty, stability and strong mandate during #BRexit. At the General Election in June 2017, turnout was up by 2% to 69% - the highest since 1997. 46.8 Million electorate are registered to vote of which 32.2 Million people turned out to vote (68.7%). The final vote share was Conservative 318 seats (49% of total seats in 2017 | -13 compared to 2015), Labour 262 seats (40% | +30), SNP 35 seats (5% | -21), Lib Dems 12 seats (2% | +4).
