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The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024, to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The opposition Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, defeated the governing Conservative Party, led by Rishi Sunak, in a landslide victory .
4 July - The 2024 United Kingdom general election is scheduled to be held. Council by-election in Madeley and Betley ward to elect two new councillors on Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council. October. 2024 University of Oxford Chancellor election; See also. 2024 in the United Kingdom; References
In the United Kingdom's 2024 general election, 650 members of Parliament were elected to the country's House of Commons – one for each parliamentary constituency. The UK Parliament consists of the elected House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the Sovereign. The new Parliament first met on 9 July 2024.
The dates for these opinion polls range from the 2024 general election on 4 July to the present day. Under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, the next general election must be held no later than Wednesday 15 August 2029. The Act mandates that, if it has not already been dissolved at the request of the prime minister, Parliament ...
The 2024 United Kingdom general election in England is scheduled to be held on Thursday 4 July across 543 constituencies within England. Electoral system [ edit ] The election will be fought under the boundaries created by the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies . [1]
This national electoral calendar for 2024 lists the national/ federal elections held, and scheduled to be held, in 2024 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included. Specific dates are given where these are known. Part of the Politics series.
Candidates might have been selected on either the old or the new boundaries. [2] At the deadline on 7 June 2024, a total of 132 MPs announced they were standing down at the election. [3] This included a record number of Conservative MPs. 29 former Members of Parliament intend to stand in the election. [4]
This is a list of United Kingdom general elections (elections for the UK House of Commons) since the first in 1802. The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is ...