'The number of MPs a party has in power rarely represents their popularity with the public.'
Story by Hannah Ross: As the final week of the general election campaign looms before us, polls are showing both the predicted vote share and seats for each political party.Pollsters Electoral Calculus and Find Out Now conducted a large-scale poll for GB News using MPR to predict the results of the upcoming election.
A new MRP polling has revealed Labour will win a majority of the vote share followed by Reform UK, the Conservative Party, the Lib Dems and finally, the Green Party.
However, translated into the number of predicted seats the figures dramatically change with the Liberal Democrats taking the second highest number of seats after Labour, followed by the Conservative Party, the SNP and then Reform.
The disparity in these results is down to the 'plurality-majority' electoral system used to elect Members of Parliament to Westminster called First Past the Post (FPTP).For the purpose of the general election, the UK is divided into 650 areas or constituencies and at the election the candidate with the most votes becomes the MP.