UK Labour searches for answers after day of reckoning

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6. No, Brexit got that in the 2019 general election. Reform UK got 1% this time

Support for the Brexit Party, which registered 26% in Hartlepool in 2019, collapsed - the successor Reform party secured just 1% of the vote.

It looks as though the Conservatives picked up the Brexit Party's former support, in line with the proportion of Leave voters preferring the Conservatives to Labour to the order of 3/4 to 1.
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Labour's vote fell 9 points to 29%, so the party clearly lost some of its 2019 support, as well as suffering from the movement of Brexit Party voters to the Conservatives.

Part of the explanation may lie in the success of independent candidate, Sam Lee, who won 10% of the vote.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57019456

Labour had an "outright majority" in 2017 (52.5%), but not 2019.