#UKElection ICYMI
Misinformation about Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak is among the content promoted to young voters' TikTok feeds
BBC project to investigate the content promoted by social media algorithms has found - alongside funny montages - young people exposed to misleading and divisive content. shared by everyone from students and political activists to comedians and anonymous bot-like accounts.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1ww6vz1l81o
Marianna Spring explains the Undercover Voters project
Makes ya wonder 🤔
Uk might see a surprising result in this election
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112695398909793416
Or it might go the way we predict
¯\(°_o)/¯
What will be will be I guess
What's more interesting about this election is boundaries
Big changes have been made to the political map since 2019. Boundaries have changed and many constituencies will be new or different from the last general election for millions of people.
There are 650 constituencies across the UK and each returns one MP to the House of Commons in Parliament in Westminster. In England there are 543; 57 in Scotland; 32 in Wales and 18 in Northern Ireland.
Boundary changes have reduced the number of constituencies in Scotland from 59 to 57, with a number of constituency names changed as well.
How many candidates are standing?
There are more than 4,500 candidates from about 100 different parties. No party is standing in every constituency.
There are also more than 450 independent candidates, who are not affiliated to any party, standing across the UK at this election.
If you want to browse through the constituencies you can use bbc A-Z page.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies