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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 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in a landslide victory.
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom 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 not included in the table below.
2.1 India. 3 Europe. Toggle Europe subsection. ... 1969 Botswana general election; 1969 Chadian parliamentary election; ... This page was last edited on 1 August 2024
After the sweeping Conservative gains in the local elections of 1967 and 1968, the Labour Party – which had been in government since 1964 – was left with little to defend. But the Labour Party still stood to lose ground because the council wards being fought in 1969 had last been fought at a good time for them: in 1966 in the afterglow of ...
The result means the Lib Dems have regained a seat they first won at the 1997 general election and then held for 18 years – one of a number of constituencies in south-west England that once made ...
Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch purchases the best-selling UK Sunday newspaper The News of the World. [ 2 ] 4 January – Guitarist Jimi Hendrix caused complaints of arrogance from television producers after playing an impromptu version of "Sunshine Of Your Love" past his allotted timeslot on the BBC1 programme Happening for Lulu .
Credit - Getty Images. 2024 is not just an election year. It’s perhaps the election year.. Globally, more voters than ever in history will head to the polls as at least 64 countries (plus the ...
Constituency County Region 2019 seat 2024 seat Votes Turnout [a]; Party Candidate Votes Of total Margin, of total Lab. [b] Con. Ref. Lib. Dems Green Other [c] Total