The British General Election of 2001

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/The_British_General_Election_of_2001
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom
gptkbp:Conservative_Party_seats_won 166
gptkbp:conservativeLeader gptkb:William_Hague
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:dateHeld 2001-06-07
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The British General Election of 2001
gptkbp:Labour_Party_seats_won 412
gptkbp:leader gptkb:Tony_Blair
gptkbp:libDemLeader gptkb:Charles_Kennedy
gptkbp:LiberalSeatsWon 52
gptkbp:majorityThreshold 330
gptkbp:monarch gptkb:Elizabeth_II
gptkbp:nextEdition gptkb:The_British_General_Election_of_2005
gptkbp:notableFeature lowest turnout since 1918
Labour won a second consecutive landslide
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:Conservative_Party
gptkbp:parliament gptkb:53rd_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom
gptkbp:previousEdition gptkb:The_British_General_Election_of_1997
gptkbp:primeMinister gptkb:Tony_Blair
gptkbp:seatingCapacity 659
gptkbp:thirdLargestParty gptkb:Liberal_Democrats
gptkbp:turnoutChangeFromPrevious -12%
gptkbp:type parliamentary
gptkbp:voterTurnout 59.4%
gptkbp:votingSystem first-past-the-post
gptkbp:winner gptkb:Labour_Party
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Sir_David_Butler
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7