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3 June 2024 Reform UK: Tony Mack Clacton: Deselected in favour of party leader Nigel Farage. Mack stood as an independent candidate in the same seat. [186] 4 June 2024 Labour: Darren Rodwell Barking: Racist comments in the past and allegations of sexual harassment. Later withdrew as candidate. [187] [188] 7 June 2024 Nominations of candidates ...
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.
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. [1] The UK Parliament consists of the elected House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the Sovereign. [2] The new Parliament first met on 9 July 2024. [3]
The 2024 United Kingdom general election took place on 4 July 2024. [1] Counting began after conclusion of voting at 22:00 the same day and the results for almost all constituencies were declared in the early hours of 5 July. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party lost over 240 seats
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).
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. There have been 58 general elections held in the UK up to and including the 2024 ...
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) who held seats at the end of the 58th Parliament of the United Kingdom and did not stand for re-election in the 2024 general election. A total of 132 Members of Parliament did not stand for re-election, including a record number of Conservative MPs.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party: 169 The Rt Hon James Cleverly: Con Braintree: 4 Sep 1969: Former Home Secretary and Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs: 170 Ruth Cadbury: Lab Brentford and Isleworth: 14 May 1959: 171 Carolyn Harris: Lab