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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 .
Reform UK placed third in the share of the vote in the 2024 election and had MPs elected to the Commons for the first time. [3] The Green Party of England and Wales also won a record number of seats alongside a number of independent MPs. [4] The Scottish National Party (SNP) lost around three quarters of its seats. [5]
The dates of these opinion polls range from the previous general election on 4 July 2024 to the present. The next general election must be held no later than 15 August 2029 under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022. The Act mandates that any Parliament automatically dissolves five years after it first met – unless it is ...
Gurinder Josan. Labour. Previous incumbent for the predecessor seat of Warley, John Spellar, did not stand. Solihull West and Shirley. Conservative. Neil Shastri-Hurst. Conservative. Defeated incumbent, Julian Knight, who had been elected as a Conservative MP in 2019, but stood as an Independent in 2024.
01869 — Bicester, Oxfordshire – – Was originally 0095 (OX5) until changed to 0869 in 1968. 01870 — Isle of Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Uist(US0) – – Was originally 0047 (OH) until changed to 0870 in 1968. 01871 — Castlebay, Outer Hebrides– – Was originally 0047 (OH7) until changed to 0871 in 1968.
In the 2015 election, there was widespread controversy [3] [4] [5] when the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the Green Party of England and Wales received 4.9 million votes [6] (12.6% of the total vote for UKIP and 3.8% for the Greens) yet only gained one seat each in the House of Commons.
The international vehicle registration code for the United Kingdom is UK. [2] Prior to 28 September 2021, it was GB. [3] The specification of plates incorporating the UK code was created by the British Number Plate Manufacturers Association, and is seen as the default design by the Department for Transport. [4]
376 – Andorra (formerly 33 628) 377 – Monaco (formerly 33 93) 378 – San Marino (interchangeably with 39 0549; earlier was allocated 295 but never used) 379 – Vatican City (assigned but uses 39 06698). 38 – formerly assigned to Yugoslavia until its break-up in 1991. 380 – Ukraine. 381 – Serbia.