Election
United Kingdom 2019 General Election
December 12, 2019
The Conservative Party won a House of Commons majority under Boris Johnson, taking 365 of 650 seats on 43.6% of the vote. Labour under Jeremy Corbyn won 202 seats on 32.1%, and turnout was 67.3%.
Official results
Vote share is nationwide; seats were decided separately in 650 first-past-the-post constituencies.
- Conservative Party43.6%
365 seats
- Labour Party32.1%
202 seats
- Liberal Democrats11.5%
11 seats
- Scottish National Party3.9%
48 seats; candidates stood only in Scotland
The Integrity Ledger
What the evidence establishes, and what it does not — side by side, each finding sourced and tiered.
What is established
- Foreign interferenceCorroborated
In December 2023 the NCSC attributed the compromise through which UK-US trade documents were acquired to the group it calls Star Blizzard — known at the time of the 2019 leak as Callisto Group or Seaborgium — and assesses is almost certainly subordinate to the Russian FSB's Centre 18.
Sources:1 - Information operationsCorroborated
The UK government assessed that Russian actors almost certainly sought to interfere by amplifying the illicitly acquired trade documents online before the election.
Sources:1
What is not established
- Information operationsAlleged
A broader Russian campaign against the election is not established: the government stated it had found no evidence of a broad-spectrum campaign, and said the documents initially received little or no traction before further promotion attempts. This is an absence of evidence reported in 2020, not a forensic refutation.
Sources:1 - Result falsificationDebunked
The documented activity concerned stolen documents and online amplification, not access to ballots, local counts or the official result.