Boris Johnson called the election to end the Brexit deadlock, the first December election since 1923.
MPs passed legislation approving the poll in October by a decisive margin of 438 votes to 20, seeing Britain’s political parties leap into action for an impassioned five-week campaign period.
The PM said the election beckoned the country to "come together to get Brexit done", while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn branded it a “once-in-a-generation chance to transform" the nation.
Poplar & Limehouse results:
2017 result: Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour
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Apsana Begum, Labour, 38,660
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Andrew Cregan, Liberal Democrat, 8,832
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Catherine Cui, The Brexit Party, 1,493
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Andy Erlam, Independent, 376
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David Jameson, Green, 2,159
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Shaun Oke, Conservative, 9,756
To secure a majority and form a government, a party needs to win more than half the seats in the House of Commons - 326. The party that comes second sits on the Commons’ opposition benches, with its leader named ‘leader of the opposition’.
In 2017 the result was a hung parliament, where no single party commands a majority in Parliament. In this situation, several parties can join forces to become a ‘coalition government’, as in 2010 with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, or a single party can form a minority government.
You can read the Evening Standard’s list of candidates standing in every London constituency for the 2019 election here.
