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Election 2019: How the night unfolded
  • Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Boris Johnson leaves Conservative Party headquarters with his partner Carrie Symonds and their dog Dilyn, in London, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party appeared on course Friday to win a solid majority of seats in Britain's Parliament— a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johnson to fulfill his plan to take the U.K. out of the European Union next month. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
  • Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson, second right, reacts as she loses her East Dumbartonshire constituency, during the count at the Leisuredome, Bishopbriggs, Scotland, Friday Dec. 13, 2019. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)
  • LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves the stage at Sobell leisure centre after retaining his parliamentary seat on December 13, 2019 in London, England. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has held the Islington North seat since 1983. The current Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century in an attempt to gain a working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. The election results from across the country are being counted overnight and an overall result is expected in the early hours of Friday morning. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
  • A member of the counting staff yawns as ballot papers are counted at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, Scotland Friday Dec. 13, 2019. An exit poll in Britain’s election projects that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party likely will win a majority of seats in Parliament. That outcome would allow Johnson to fulfil his plan to take the U.K. out of the European Union next month. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)
  • A Scottish National Party (SNP) supporter celebrates a success at the count centre in Glasgow on December 13, 2019 after votes are counted in the UK general election. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP) (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Britain's Houses of Parliament, comprising the House of Lords and House of Commons is pictured in central London on December 13, 2019, following the result of the General Election. - Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday hailed a political "earthquake" in Britain after a thumping election victory which clears the way for the country to finally leave the EU next month after years of paralysing deadlock. (Photo by Niklas HALLE'N / AFP) (Photo by NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty Images)
  • LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Political adviser Dominic Cummings arrives at Downing Street as the Conservatives celebrate a sweeping election victory on December 13, 2019 in London, England. Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century in an attempt to gain a working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. As the results roll in the Conservative Party has gained the number of seats needed to win a clear majority at the expense of the Labour Party. Votes are still being counted and an overall result is expected later today. (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)
  • LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Political adviser Dominic Cummings arrives at Downing Street as the Conservatives celebrate a sweeping election victory on December 13, 2019 in London, England. Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century in an attempt to gain a working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. As the results roll in the Conservative Party has gained the number of seats needed to win a clear majority at the expense of the Labour Party. Votes are still being counted and an overall result is expected later today. (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)
  • Number 10 special advisor Dominic Cummings arrives at a venue in central London for a victory speech by Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson on December 13, 2019. - Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday hailed a political "earthquake" after securing a sweeping election win, which clears the way for Britain to finally leave the European Union next month after years of political deadlock. (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images)
  • MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: A woman views newspapers on display in a newsagents in Piccadilly train station after the Conservative Party won a majority in the 2019 UK General Election on December 13, 2019 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)
  • MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: A bus driver reads a newspaper at Stalybridge Train Station after the Conservative Party won a majority in the 2019 UK General Election on December 13, 2019 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)
  • Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds arrive in Downing Street after the Conservative Party was returned to power in the General Election with an increased majority. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Boris Johnson speaks during a campaign event to celebrate the result of the General Election, in central London on December 13, 2019. - Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday hailed a political "earthquake" after securing a sweeping election win, which clears the way for Britain to finally leave the European Union next month after years of political deadlock. (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a rally with party supporters in Westminster after the Conservative Party was returned to power in the General Election with an increased majority. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a rally with party supporters in Westminster after the Conservative Party was returned to power in the General Election with an increased majority. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Sinn Fein deputy leader Michelle O'Neill (centre) with elected Sinn Fein candidates Michelle Gildernew (right), Fermanagh/South Tyrone, and Orfhlaith Begley, West Tyrone, after Gildernew was announced as elected at the Leisure Centre, in Omagh, Northern Ireland, as counting continues in the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Boris Johnson makes a speech at QEII as the Conservatives celebrate a sweeping election victory on December 13, 2019 in London, England. Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century in an attempt to gain a working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. As the results roll in the Conservative Party has gained the number of seats needed to win a clear majority at the expense of the Labour Party. Votes are still being counted and an overall result is expected later today. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)
  • LONDON ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: The BBC Forecast final election result projections on the outside of the entrance to the BBC Broadcast house building on December 13, 2019 in London, England. The UK has woken up to a large victory for incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in the 2019 general election with a substantial majority giving them their best result since 1987 under Margaret Thatcher. (Photo by Ollie Millington/Getty Images)
  • LONDON ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: The BBC Forecast final election result projections on the outside of the entrance to the BBC Broadcast house building on December 13, 2019 in London, England. The UK has woken up to a large victory for incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in the 2019 general election with a substantial majority giving them their best result since 1987 under Margaret Thatcher. (Photo by Ollie Millington/Getty Images)
  • LONDON ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: The BBC Forecast final election result projections on the outside of the entrance to the BBC Broadcast house building on December 13, 2019 in London, England. The UK has woken up to a large victory for incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in the 2019 general election with a substantial majority giving them their best result since 1987 under Margaret Thatcher. (Photo by Ollie Millington/Getty Images)
  • LONDON ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: The BBC Forecast final election result projections on the outside of the entrance to the BBC Broadcast house building on December 13, 2019 in London, England. The UK has woken up to a large victory for incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in the 2019 general election with a substantial majority giving them their best result since 1987 under Margaret Thatcher. (Photo by Ollie Millington/Getty Images).
  • Sinn Fein deputy leader Michelle O'Neill (centre) with Sinn Fein candidate for Fermanagh/South Tyrone Michelle Gildernew (left) after Gildernew was announced as elected at the Leisure Centre, in Omagh, Northern Ireland, as counting continues in the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Conservative MP Michael Gove speaks during a Conservative Party campaign event to celebrate the result of the General Election, in central London on December 13, 2019. - Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday hailed a political "earthquake" after securing a sweeping election win, which clears the way for Britain to finally leave the European Union next month after years of political deadlock. (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP) (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)
  • MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Commuters read newspapers at Stalybridge Train Station after the Conservative Party won a majority in the 2019 UK General Election on December 13, 2019 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)
  • Jess Phillips speaking at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham after retaining her seat in Birmingham Yardley in the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Matthew Cooper/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Nigel Dodds for the DUP publicly thanks the voters and his election team for their support after he lost his Belfast North seat to Sinn Fein's John Finucane for the 2019 General Election, at the Titanic exhibition centre, Belfast. (Photo by Liam McBurney/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Matthew Offord after he was re-elected as MP for Hendon at Allainz Park, London in the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Jacob King/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • SNP candidate for Edinburgh South West Joanna Cherry retains her seat at the Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh, for the UK Parliamentary General Election. PA Photo. Picture date: Thursday December 13, 2019. See PA story POLITICS Election. Photo credit should read: Lesley Martin/PA Wire (Photo by Lesley Martin/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - DECEMBER 13: Liberal Democrat candidate Christine Jardine becomes emotional over party leader Jo Swinson losing her seat, after retaining her own Edinburgh West seat in the general election, on December 13, 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The current Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century in an attempt to gain a working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. The election results from across the country are being counted overnight and an overall result is expected in the early hours of Friday morning. (Photo by Ken Jack/Getty Images)
  • Liberal Democrat candidate Luciana Berger reacts as she loses the Finchley & Golders Green constituency in north London for the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Jacob King/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Scottish Secretary Alister Jack celebrating retaining his Dumfries and Galloway Seat at the David Jeswick Centre, Dumfries in the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Laura Paterson/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (L) speaks from the stage at Sobell leisure centre after retaining his parliamentary seat on December 13, 2019 in London, England. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has held the Islington North seat since 1983. The current Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century in an attempt to gain a working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. The election results from across the country are being counted overnight and an overall result is expected in the early hours of Friday morning. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
  • LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks from the stage at Sobell leisure centre after retaining his parliamentary seat on December 13, 2019 in London, England. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has held the Islington North seat since 1983. The current Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century in an attempt to gain a working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. The election results from across the country are being counted overnight and an overall result is expected in the early hours of Friday morning. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
  • First Minister Nicola Sturgeon hugs her newly elected MPs at the SEC Centre in Glasgow after counting for the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • SNP MP Alison Thewliss celebrates at the SEC Centre in Glasgow after counting for the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • First Minister Nicola Sturgeon celebrates with some of her newly elected MPs at the SEC Centre in Glasgow after counting for the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Ben Corbyn (L) stands by as Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (R) and Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry (C) meet after they both retained their Parliamentary seats following the count at Sobell leisure centre on December 13, 2019 in London, England. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has held the Islington North seat since 1983. The current Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century in an attempt to gain a working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. The election results from across the country are being counted overnight and an overall result is expected in the early hours of Friday morning. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
  • LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (R) and Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry meet after both retaining their Parliamentary seats following the count at Sobell leisure centre on December 13, 2019 in London, England. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has held the Islington North seat since 1983. The current Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century in an attempt to gain a working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. The election results from across the country are being counted overnight and an overall result is expected in the early hours of Friday morning. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
  • Labour candidate Carl Greatbatch commiserates after losing the Newcastle-Under-Lyme seat in the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson kisses her husband, Duncan, as she walks to the stage at the count at the Leisuredome, Bishopbriggs, to hear that she had lost her East Dumbartonshire seat in the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson (centre) reacts as she loses her East Dumbartonshire constituency in the 2019 General Election, during the count at the Leisuredome, Bishopbriggs. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson (second left) listens as she loses her East Dumbartonshire constituency in the 2019 General Election, during the count at the Leisuredome, Bishopbriggs. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Labour's Neil Coyle and Harriet Harman in Southwark, London after both re-elected as MPs in the general election in the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Helen William/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Scottish National Party (SNP) leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon celebrates as she hears that New Scottish National Party (SNP) MP for Dunbartonshire East, Amy Callaghan has unseated Britain's Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson, at the count centre in Glasgow on December 13, 2019 after votes are counted in the UK general election. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP) (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Michelle Dewberry, the former winner of The Apprentice and Brexit Party candidate for Hull West & Hessle, with former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan after she failed to win the Kingston upon Hull West & Hessle seat at the Guildhall in Hull in the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • A pedestrian walks past an electric quotation board displaying the numbers on the Nikkei 225 Index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on December 13, 2019. - Tokyo's key Nikkei stock index jumped more than two percent on December 13, boosted by hopes for an imminent US-China trade deal and polls predicting an election win for Britain's ruling Conservative Party, setting the stage for Brexit. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP) (Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Prime Minister Boris Johnson giving his victory speech after winning the Uxbridge & Ruislip South constituency in the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • BATH, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Conservative Party parliamentary candidate Jacob Rees-Mogg after winning the North East Somerset constituency at the Sports Training Village, University of Bath, on December 13, 2019 in Bath, England. The current Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century in an attempt to gain a working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. The election results from across the country are being counted overnight and an overall result is expected in the early hours of Friday morning. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)
  • Conservative Party MP Dominic Raab after being re-elected to serve the constituency of Esher and Walton at Sandown Park Racecourse in Surrey at the 2019 General Election. He won with 31,132 votes beating Lib Dem candidate Monica Harding who received 28,389 votes. (Photo by Katie Collins/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • Britain's Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson reacts as she speaks on stage after losing her seat at the East Dunbartonshire count centre in Bishopbriggs, north of Glasgow, on December 13, 2019 after votes were counted as part of the UK general election. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster (C) reacts after learning that Deputy Leader of the DUP (Democratic Unionist Party) Nigel Dodds has lost his seat to Sinn Fein's new MP for North Belfast John Finucane at the count centre in Belfast on December 13, 2019 in the UK general election. - Prime Minister Boris Johnson's ruling party appeared on course for a sweeping victory in Thursday's snap election, an exit poll showed, paving the way for Britain to leave the EU next month after years of political deadlock. (Photo by PAUL FAITH / AFP) (Photo by PAUL FAITH/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Supporters of Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith wait for the result at St Mary's University, in Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, where he lost his Richmond Park seat in the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Steve Parsons/PA Images via Getty Images)
  • LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Prime Minister Boris Johnson, standing near a fellow candidate dressed as Elmo, speaks at the vote declaration for his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency on December 13, 2019 in Uxbridge, England. Exit polls predicted the Prime Minister, who has held the Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat since 2015, will emerge from this general election with a governing majority, his aim when he called the first UK winter election for nearly a century. Election results from across the country are being counted overnight and an overall result is expected in the early hours of Friday morning. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
  • LONDON ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Stella Creasy Labour candidate for Walthamstow after regaining her seat at the count in Walthamstow on December 13, 2019 in London, England. The current Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century in an attempt to gain a working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. The election results from across the country are being counted overnight and an overall result is expected in the early hours of Friday morning. (Photo by Nicola Tree/Getty Images)
  • LONDON ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13:Conservative supporters for Iain Duncan Smith at the Waltham Forest count on December 13, 2019 in London, England. The current Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century in an attempt to gain a working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. The election results from across the country are being counted overnight and an overall result is expected in the early hours of Friday morning. (Photo by Nicola Tree/Getty Images)
  • LONDON ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13: Iain Duncan Smith Conservative candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green at the count in Walthamstow on December 13, 2019 in London, England. The current Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the first UK winter election for nearly a century in an attempt to gain a working majority to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit. The election results from across the country are being counted overnight and an overall result is expected in the early hours of Friday morning. (Photo by Nicola Tree/Getty Images)
  • Supporters of Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith hug after hearing at St Mary's University, in Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, that he had lost his Richmond Park seat in the 2019 General Election. (Photo by Steve Parsons/PA Images via Getty Images)

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