General Election 2019: how high was turnout in Portsmouth and the rest of the UK?

Boris Johnson has emerged this morning as the UK's Prime Minister after the Conservative Party claimed a bruising majority.

Two-thirds of the UK electorate - 47,587,254 in total - cast their vote at the 2019 General Election, down slightly on the 2017 election.

With one seat still to declare, the turnout stands at 67.3 %, approximately 1.5% less than the previous election.

Portsmouth North

Turnout: 64.4%

Change: -1.8%

Portsmouth South

Turnout: 63.9%

Change: +0.1%

Gosport

Turnout: 65.9%

Change: -0.9%

Havant

Turnout: 63.7%

Change: -0.2%

Fareham

Turnout: 73.1%

Change: +0.8%

Meon Valley

Turnout: 72.4%

Change: -0.6%

Hampshire East

Turnout: 74.4%

Change: -0.3%

Swathes of traditional Labour supporters appear to have swapped their loyalties for the Conservatives, with 13,905,520 voters in total casting their vote in favour of Johnson's party - up from 13,636,684 in 2017.

This dwarfed Labour's total of 10,282,632, dropping from 12,878,460 in 2017.

Despite losing a seat, the Liberal Democrats saw an increase in votes across the board, winning 3,662,297 of the popular vote - up from 2,371,910.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) saw a dramatic growth in their popular vote, increasing from 977,569 to 1,242,380.

England's turnout was down on the 2017 General Election from 69.1% to 67.4%.

Scotland meanwhile saw a spike in voters with 68.1% of the electorate voting compared to 66.5% in 2017.

In Wales there was a significant drop in turnout of 2%, dipping from 68.6% in 2017 to 66.6%.

Turnout was also significantly down in Northern Ireland with just 61.8% turnout, down from 65.4%.