2024 United Kingdom general election

2024 United Kingdom general election

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All 650 seats in the House of Commons. Figures below show state of the Commons at dissolution. 326 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Seats Conservative Rishi Sunak 344 Labour Keir Starmer 205 SNP John Swinney[a] 43 Liberal Democrats Ed Davey 15 DUP Gavin Robinson 7 Sinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald[b] 7 Plaid Cymru Rhun ap Iorwerth[c] 3 SDLP Colum Eastwood 2 Alba Alex Salmond[d] 2 Green Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay 1 Alliance Naomi Long 1 Workers Party George Galloway 1 Reform UK Nigel Farage[e] 1 Independent N/A 15 Speaker Lindsay Hoyle 1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Rishi Sunak Conservative

The 2024 United Kingdom general election is scheduled to be held on Thursday, 4 July 2024.^[1] It will determine the composition of the House of Commons, which determines the Government of the United Kingdom. Significant constituency boundary changes will be in effect, the first such changes since before the 2010 general election. It will be the first UK general election where voter identification is required to vote in person in Great Britain.^[f] The general election will be the first since the UK's departure from the European Union on 31 January 2020, which was a major issue in the previous election; it will also be the first to take place under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022.

Discussion around the campaign has been focused on the prospect of a change in government, with the opposition Labour Party led by Keir Starmer having a significant lead in polling over the governing Conservative Party led by Rishi Sunak. Public opinion in favour of a change in government was reflected in the Conservatives' poor performance at the 2022 and 2023 local elections, where Labour and the Liberal Democrats made gains from Conservatives, often by very wide margins. The parties made further gains in the 2024 local elections, in which both Labour and the Liberal Democrats had a greater number of successful candidates than the Conservatives. Many by-elections were won by their candidates during the parliament. A record number of Conservative MPs are not standing for re-election.^[2]

Projections four weeks before the vote indicated a landslide victory for Labour that would surpass the one achieved under Tony Blair in 1997, and the worst election defeat for the Conservatives since 1906, with even speculation that the Liberal Democrats could potentially become the official opposition,^[3] whilst comparisons have been made in the media to the 1993 Canadian federal election, due to the prospect of a potential Conservative wipeout.^[4][5]

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