What is significant about the 2019 GE?

2019 saw so much issue voting on Brexit that it was dubbed ‘the Brexit Election’
The Conservatives, being the strongest leave party won 74% of leave voters
Labour only secured 49% of the Remain vote
Labour received 56% of the 18-24 vote and 14% of the 70+ vote
Men were 15% more likely to vote Tory, Women were 9% more likely
Voter turnout was 67.3% decreasing by 1.5% from 2017

Played a big role:
Constituents are increasingly bombarded with lots of information about the election, some true and some false.
A Labour MP reported almost losing his seat due constituents believing rumours of Corbyn being an IRA member.
There was an increase in targeted ads over Social Media, the Tories focussing on the North East English Brexit voters.
Didn’t have a big role:
The majority of people read news from sources tailored to their views, not changing the way they planned to vote.
Tory voters tend to get their news from printed newspapers, Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Sun all supported the Tories.
Labour voters tend to get their news online, the guardian, the BBC which were both labour or Anti Brexit.
Research also shows that Labour and Lib Dems spent far more on targeted Ads than the Tories and still lost the election.

Tories won with 365 seats, gaining 47 from the 2017 election and winning the majority
Labour won only 203 seats, losing 59, their worst defeat since the 1935 general election
Most of Tory gains were made in the so called ‘red wall’ – targeting leave voters
The SNP gained 13 seats, now controlling 81% of Scotland
Lib Dems had a vote increase of 4.2%, the largest of all parties, but still lost 1 seat
Labour was the only seat-winning party to lose voter share, decreasing 7.8% from 2017
The Brexit party, despite this being the ‘Brexit Election’ won 0 seats.