‘Change’ was Labour’s slogan in 2024, and change is what voters delivered in an election which sent records tumbling. The 19.9-point drop suffered by the Conservatives was the largest fall in support that any single party has ever suffered and 23.7% was the lowest vote share the Tories have ever received, surpassing the previous low set by the Duke of Wellington in 1832 when the Napoleonic Wars were a recent memory and the universal franchise was nearly a century away. The Conservatives lost 252 seats, beating the previous record of 246 seats lost, also by the Conservatives (but from a larger Commons) in the 1906 Liberal landslide. The 2024 election featured the most ever seats changing hands between parties (303); the most ever incumbents falling from first place to third or fourth; and the second most seats ever gained by the Labour Party (211), surpassed only by the 1945 landslide (239). The previous constituency record for the largest Conservative to Labour swing in a general election was broken in 47 seats, with the new record set by Liz Truss’ defeat by Terry Jermy in Norfolk South West on a 25.8-point swing . Truss also became the first current or former Prime Minister to fight and lose their Commons constituency since Ramsay Macdonald in 1935.