Tory election 'wipe out' as poll predicts exactly how many seats Rishi Sunak will win
Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party would be left with just 66 seats according to a new poll by Electoral Calculus.
The Conservative Party could face an electoral disaster according to a new poll by Electoral Calculus that has predicted that Rishi Sunak could be left with just 66 MPs after this year’s general election.
According to the mega poll, which surveyed 10,000 people, Sir Keir Starmer the Labour Party would be left with a majority of 302 and secure between 476 and 493 MPs on the way to victory.
What’s more the results of the poll, conducted for the Daily Mail and GB News, put Labour on 46 percent of the vote and the Conservative Party on 19 percent.
The results of the poll also take into account tactical voting. With tactical voting, the Tories could be left with 66 seats, but without tactical voting, they would have 72.
The poll has forecast that while Rishi Sunak is set to keep his seat, other Tory politicians such as Grant Shapps, James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch, Penny Mordaunt and Oliver Dowden could lose theirs.
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In a statement on the poll, Electoral Calculus said: “Our figures indicate a substantial Labour landslide, with Keir Starmer gaining a majority of over 300 seats at Westminster.
“The Conservatives would have fewer than 100 seats. They would be the official opposition, but they would have less than half of the opposition MPs – 72 out of 157.”
Reacting to the poll, former BBC journalist Emily Maitlis told The News Agents podcast about the impact of the poll and the impact it could have on the voter. She said: “I think we have to take every poll with a pinch of salt, a massive, a massive mountain of salt and all the rest of it, but I guess my question is just the impact that something like this might be having on the voter if they see it.
“If you were going to vote tactically and you see what a large majority Labour might be getting are you now thinking, ‘Well sod that, I don’t have to’.”
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Ms Maitlis added: “Are you thinking ‘I’m a lifelong Green supporter, a lifelong Lib Dem supporter or I want the Cannabis is Safer than alcohol party in my local constituency and I’m just going to go with my heart now because it all looks too big to even worry about. Is that a danger for labour?”
Fellow presenter Lewis Goodall commented: “It’s so cataclysmic that they don’t quite believe it and so in a way, if it were kind of just a bit better they would almost feel like that would be worse for them psychologically.”
