Fantasy General Election

The UK's *preferred* parliament-themed fantasy football game 🗳️⚽️

Back in 2029

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Just about it from us for this year. Thanks so much to the 11,687(!) people who signed up to play FGE 2024

If you want some more nonsense in the meantime:

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Otherwise, see you back here in 2029 👋

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Team of the Season

Selection rules meant that a few attackers had to miss out, while a few defenders were probably fairly lucky to make it in, but here's our best XI for the 2024 general election:

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In the time-honoured tradition, here are the Fantasy General Election 2024 end-of-season awards 🏆

https://t.co/auW3ySDJh5

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Party of the Year
Liberal Democrats

22 candidates in this year's top 50, and 5 in the top 10

Impressive performance all round from @EdwardJDavey and the @LibDems

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Check your inboxes - the winners of this year's Liz Truss Award are about to be contacted 👀

https://t.co/I9O7YnNOnI

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This is some mightily impressive analysis

[The FPL Kiwi @theFPLkiwi]

I *think* 274,561 from £99,984 was the best possible @electionfooty score 🧮 #fantasyelection:

Attack 🗡️🥝:
34122*2 Farage RFM (c) £25717
31794 Brown-Fuller LDM £19622
27103 Denyer GRN £16696
26612 Farron LDM £5140
22871 Chambers LDM £9050
15472 Douglas Alexander LAB (SCO) £2207

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Something pretty impressive about the fact that 11,697 people signed up to play Fantasy General Election 2024, and all of them except one were beaten by a 16 year old 😅

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@BohemianSeagull I made a second account and asked ChatGPT to pick the team - finished 264th

https://t.co/Bd3NYPqPxk

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We're still waiting for one more result to come through before we can officially declare Fantasy General Election 2024 over. How did you get on?

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Out of curiosity, how long did it take you to pick your team?

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A few people have been in touch to ask about points for defeating independents, so here's a quick reminder of the rules:

You *do* get extra points for defeating an independent MP, but only if the independent is actually standing in the election.

For example, if Labour had beaten Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North, there would have been extra points there - because he was contesting the election.

But there are no extra points for winning Reigate, because the independent MP had stood down. In effect, they had unseated themselves.

Hope that helps 🙂

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Just mulling something over for next time.

Would it be better if we waited until all the results are in, and then updated the leaderboard in one go?

Could maybe do a live stream or something to go with it.

Or do you prefer them drip-fed on the night?

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@bezthespaniard No extra points for any them I'm afraid. You can't unseat an independent if they've already stood down, and Newcastle NE & Wallsend is a new seat, so notionally a Labour hold

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Still a few results to tidy up from last night, but the vast majority are in - and here's how the table's looking

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The drama 😅

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@GregorMcCourt Absolutely no shame in that. Hope you get nudged into the top 250

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@theFPLkiwi Done! Thanks very much 🙏