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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.
May eventually resigned and Boris Johnson became prime minister. After further government defeats, a general election was held in December 2019—the first December election since 1923—which resulted in an 80-seat majority for the Conservatives, gaining many seats that Labour had held since at least 1945. The United Kingdom formally left the ...
The election with the largest number of candidates was the 2024 general election, with 4,515. [16] There have been 24 occasions when there were more than ten candidates on a single ballot in a general election. Large numbers of candidates are common in London seats and in the seat of the incumbent Prime Minister (marked in bold in the below list).
Sir Keir Starmer is appointed Prime Minister by King Charles III and forms a new government following the resignation of Rishi Sunak. [78] [79] 6 July Results announced for final two undeclared seats, following recounts. 9 July First meeting of the new Parliament of the United Kingdom for the formal election of Speaker of the House of Commons.
After each election, having remained in power, a prime minister may engage in a major or minor reshuffle of ministers; such a reshuffle may occur at any time if the prime minister wishes it. Any vacancy arising in the House, due to death, ennoblement, resignation , or recall , is filled by a by-election .
The governing Conservative Party, led by the prime minister Boris Johnson, won a landslide victory with a majority of 80 seats, [n 5] a net gain of 48, on 43.6 per cent of the popular vote, the highest percentage for any party since the 1979 general election, [4] though with a narrower popular vote margin than that achieved by the Labour Party ...
Thatcher's first term as Prime Minister had not been an easy time. [2] Unemployment increased during the first three years of her premiership and the economy went through a recession. However, the British victory in the Falklands War led to a recovery of her personal popularity, and economic growth had begun to resume.
The Conservatives had been re-elected in a landslide at the 1987 general election under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, who had led the party back into power in 1979 and won a landslide majority in 1983, but her popularity and that of her government sharply declined due to internal divisions in the party and the unpopular Community Charge (also known as the 'poll tax'), as well as the ...