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All 650 seats in the House of Commons 326[a] seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 48,208,507 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 28,924,725 59.7% (  7.6 pp)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024 to elect all 650 members of the House of Commons. The opposition Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, won a landslide victory over the governing Conservative Party under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, ending 14 years of Conservative government.[3]
Labour secured 411 seats[c][b] and a 174-seat majority, the third-best showing in the party's history and its best since 2001. The party's vote share was 33.7%, the lowest of any majority party on record, making this the least proportional general election in British history.[4] They became the largest party in England, Scotland and Wales. The Conservatives suffered their worst-ever defeat, winning 121 seats with 23.7% of the vote and losing 251 seats, including those of the former prime minister Liz Truss and 12 Cabinet ministers.[5]
Smaller parties saw record support, with 42.6% of the total vote. The Liberal Democrats, led by Ed Davey, became the third-largest party with 72 seats, their best modern result. Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, won five seats and 14.3% of the vote, the third-highest vote share, and the Green Party won four seats. For both parties this was their best parliamentary result to date.
In Scotland the Scottish National Party dropped from 48 to 9 seats, losing its status as Scotland's largest party.[6] In Wales, Plaid Cymru won four seats. In Northern Ireland, which has a distinct set of political parties,[7] Sinn Féin retained seven seats; the first election in which an Irish nationalist party won the most seats in Northern Ireland. The Democratic Unionist Party dropped from 8 to 5 seats.
Campaign issues included the economy, healthcare, housing, energy and immigration. There was relatively little discussion of Brexit, which was a major issue during the 2019 general election. This was the first general election under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, the first with photo identification required to vote in Great Britain,[d] and the first fought using the new constituency boundaries implemented following the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies.[8]
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- ^ "UK general election results live: Labour set for landslide as results come in across country". BBC News. 4 July 2024. Archived from the original on 4 July 2024. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ "Britain's general election was its least representative ever". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Archived from the original on 12 July 2024. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
- ^ Falconer, Rebecca (5 July 2024). "Former Prime Minister Liz Truss loses seat in U.K. election". Axios. Archived from the original on 6 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
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- ^ Stavrou, Athena (22 May 2024). "King Charles to dissolve parliament for his first general election as monarch". The Independent. Archived from the original on 30 September 2024. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
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