The 7,992 people whose votes really mattered
If just 7,992 people, in key marginals, had voted differently (for the Conservatives, rather than the winning party), the Conservatives would have secured an overall majority.
That’s just 0.03% of the total number of people who voted.
This is where the Tories needed those votes:
Hampstead and Kilburn = 22 [Lab]
Bolton West = 47 [Lab]
Solihull = 88 [LD]
Southampton Itchen = 97 [Lab]
Dorset Mid and Poole North = 135 [LD]
Wirral South = 266 [Lab]
Derby North = 307 [Lab]
Dudley North = 325 [Lab]
Great Grimsby = 358 [Lab]
Wells = 401 [LD]
Telford = 490 [Lab]
Walsall North = 496 [Lab]
Morley and Outwood = 551 [Lab]
Birmingham Edgbaston = 638 [Lab]
St Austell and Newquay = 657 [LD]
Halifax = 737 [Lab]
Newcastle-under-Lyme = 777 [Lab]
Plymouth Moor View = 795 [Lab]
Sutton and Cheam = 805 [LD]
This increase in vote share of 0.03% would have given a 3% (100 times greater) increase in the share of seats.
