United Kingdom general election, 2017

The 2017 general election took place on 8 June. While the last election was in 2015, Prime Minister Theresa May called an early election following the declaration of Article 50 to begin talks to leave the European Union in the hopes of improving the Conservative Party majority.

Labour
Cooper's campaign expressed support for increases to NHS funding, and opposition to cuts from schooling, arguing that poor schooling would limit the next generation to zero-gours contracts rather than "good quality jobs". Cooper also supported an increase in local policing to tackle anti-social behaviour.

Labour's campaign featured a fictional newspaper called "The Five Towns News", which argued that the Conservative Party was preparing to make £5 million of cuts in the region to fund the construction of a new grammar school. It also insisted 150 teaching jobs were under risk.

UKIP
Lewis Thompson declared both the Labour and Conservative parties to be elitist. His proposals were to donate 50% of his Westminster salary to local charities and foodbanks to ease poverty; to increase support to health and social care for the old and vulnerable.

Yorkshire Party
This was the first election in which the Yorkshire Party participated. Daniel Gascoigne campaigned for Yorkshire to have its own voice akin to the Scottish National Party as a means of ensuring Yorkshire politicians directly represented the party. Better NHS and education funding was also supported.

Liberal Democrats
Clarke Roberts called for the reverse of cuts to local schooling with a further national increase of £7 billion. A £6 billion increase to NHS funding was brought up, supported by a 1p tax increase on income tax.

Results
The election ended with an increase of votes for Labour since the 2015 election, while UKIP lost over six thousand votes. The Lib Dem vote was cut in half