Tactical voting could cost Reform more than 60 seats at the general election and deprive Reform an overall majority, a new analysis reveals today.
Nigel Farage would walk into No10 at the head of a majority government with 368 MPs if people voted for their first-choice party in a general election tomorrow.
But if they instead voted for the party best placed to block Reform in their local seat he would lose 67 MPs.
This would still mean Reform is the largest party in the Commons but two dozen short of a majority, Electoral Calculus research shows, meaning he may have to rely on a deal with the Tories to take power.
It found that significant numbers of 'progressives' not planning to vote for Labour as their first choice are prepared to back Sir Keir Starmer's party if it means Reform is kept out.
