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		</div><p>Boris Johnson will go into the UK General Election on December 12 trying to defend the smallest constituency majority for a prime minister in nearly 100 years.</p>
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<p>Mr Johnson is seeking re-election as MP for Uxbridge &; South Ruislip, it was confirmed on Thursday.</p>
<p>He won the seat in 2017 with a majority of just 5,034.</p>
<p>No prime minister since 1924 has fought a general election while simultaneously defending such a slim personal majority.</p>
<p>A swing of just over 5% would be enough for Labour to take the seat from the Conservatives and leave Mr Johnson without a constituency.</p>
<p>This kind of swing, if it was repeated across the country, would see Labour on course to be the largest party in a hung parliament.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson has been the MP for Uxbridge &; South Ruislip since 2015.</p>
<p>It currently ranks at number 54 on a list of Conservative seats most vulnerable to Labour.</p>
<p>In 2017 there was a swing in the seat from the Tories to Labour of 6.5%.</p>
<p>A similar swing in 2019 would see Mr Johnson defeated.</p>
<p>He is facing a total of 11 other candidates in this year’s election.</p>
<p>Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and Ukip are all standing, along with the Monster Raving Loony Party, three Independents and three individuals with no party description.</p>
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<p>Labour prime minister Ramsay MacDonald went into the 1924 general election defending a personal majority of 3,512 in the Aberavon seat.</p>
<p>It is the smallest majority defended by a PM at any general election since the First World War.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson’s majority of 5,034 is the second smallest.</p>
<p>Other PMs who faced voters with slim majorities include Stanley Baldwin in 1923 (5,444), Margaret Thatcher in 1983 (7,878) and Alec Douglas-Home in 1964 (9,328).</p>
<p>All of them retained their seats.</p>
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