How Does General election 2019: The voting system explained - BBC News Work?

In the 2019 General Election, people in the UK voted to choose who will be their prime minister and the leaders of their parliament.

Imagine you're playing a game with your friends where each person picks a team captain. In this case, every town or city is like a small group of players, and they pick one person, their MP, or member of parliament, to represent them in a big room called Parliament.

In most places, people vote for the MP who lives in their area. It's like picking your favorite team captain, if you get more votes than anyone else, you become that town’s representative!

But some areas are different. There are special groups of towns and cities called constituencies, and each one gets to pick one MP. Sometimes a group of these constituencies can be combined into a bigger area called a region.

Once everyone has voted, the person with the most votes in a constituency becomes that town’s MP. All these MPs then go to Parliament together, like a big team meeting where they help decide what happens in the country!