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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]
Christian Party: Jeff Green 2 0 Coalition with CPA in 2019 0.0 806 0.00 — Confelicity James Miller 2 0 New 0.0 750 0.00 New Portsmouth Independents Party: Brian Moore 1 0 New 0.0 733 0.00 New Independence for Scotland Party: Colette Walker 2 0 New 0.0 678 0.00 New Shared Ground Thomas Hall 2 0 New 0.0 664 0.00 New Cross-Community Labour ...
Both Reform UK and the Green Party also gained from the Conservatives. Liz Truss lost her own seat of South West Norfolk to Labour. [ 6 ] The only Conservative gain in England was Leicester East , where a split Labour vote between the official labour candidate and former Labour MPs Claudia Webbe and Keith Vaz depressed the Labour vote.
Current [2] Difference Labour [a] 411 [b] 402 9 Conservative: 121 121 Liberal Democrats: 72 72 Independent: 6 15 [c] 9 SNP: 9 9 Sinn Féin: 7 7 DUP: 5 5 Reform UK: 5 5 Green (E&W) 4 4 Plaid Cymru: 4 4 SDLP: 2 2 Alliance: 1 1 TUV: 1 1 UUP: 1 1 Speaker: 1 1 Vacant: 0 0 Total 650 650 Total voting [d] 639 639 Majority of voting 181 165 [6
In Northern Ireland, which has a distinct set of political parties, [9] Sinn Féin retained its seven seats and therefore became the largest party; this was the first election in which an Irish nationalist party won the most seats in Northern Ireland. The Democratic Unionist Party won five seats, a reduction from eight at the 2019 general election.
For the 2019 general election, the Brexit Party (the former name of Reform UK) did not stand candidates in seats where the Conservative party won in 2017. [114] Leader Richard Tice ruled out a similar arrangement for this election, [ 115 ] and stated his party's intention to stand in 630 seats.
The Parliament of the United Kingdom currently has 650 parliamentary constituencies across the constituent countries (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), each electing a single member of parliament (MP) to the House of Commons by the plurality (first-past-the-post) voting system, ordinarily every five years.
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.