- The new Parliament has 182 new members, including 74 new Conservative, 53 new Labour and 50 new Scottish National MPs.
- The new Parliament will see a record number of female representatives, with 191 women (up from 143) which represents 29% (up from 22%).
- The new Parliament will see a record number of ethnic representatives, with 41 from an ethnic minority (up from 27) which represents 6% (up from 4%).
- It is known that 32 of the newly elected MPs are lesbian, gay or bisexual.
- It is estimated that a third of the newly elected MPs and more than half of Conservative MPs went to private schools compared to 7% of the population.
- Of the newly elected MPs who went to university, 31% went to Oxford or Cambridge.
- The youngest MP since 1667 is 20 year old Mhairi Black who won the Paisley & Renfrewshire South seat for the SNP.
- The largest swing was 39% which was from Labour to SNP in Glasgow North East where the winning candidate was Anne McLaughlin.
- In my own constituency of Brent North, the Labour Party now has a larger majority (10,834) than the Conservatives had when Labour took the seat from them in 1997 (10,131). This is Labour’s largest ever majority in Brent North with a swing of over 7% to Labour.
- In Milton Keynes North, my daughter-in-law Emily Darlington stood as the Labour candidate. She increased Labour’s vote share by more than twice the national average, adding some 3,000 votes to the Labour tally and keeping the Conservative MP’s majority at under 10,000.
- This General Election was officially the least proportional result in British history. If the result had been exactly proportion. 24.2% of MPs would be different.
- The political composition of the House of Commons would have looked very, very different if, instead of our first-past-the-post electoral system, we had a system of proportional representation – see the figures here.
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