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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 .
Labour: Caroline Ansell [8] Eastbourne: 2019: 2019: Josh Babarinde: Liberal Democrats: Sarah Atherton [9] Wrexham: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence People, Veterans and Service Families (2022) 2019: 2019 Andrew Ranger: Labour: Shaun Bailey [10] Tipton and Wednesbury [n 3] 2019: 2019 Antonia Bance: Labour: Siobhan Baillie [11 ...
The Labour Party formed a majority government under the leadership of Keir Starmer, winning over 400 seats. Other parties including the Liberal Democrats , Reform UK and the Green Party saw an increase in their seat share in the House of Commons at expense of the Conservatives and the Scottish National Party .
The centre-left Labour won a massive majority in the 650-seat parliament. Rishi Sunak's Conservatives suffered the worst performance in the party's long history as voters punished them for a cost ...
It was a short election campaign, kicked off by rain-soaked former prime minister Rishi Sunak, which saw Labour storm to victory with the huge majority. Securing 411 seats, it was the largest for ...
July 2, 2024 at 3:10 AM. A big Labour majority would be ‘better for the country’, Starmer claims. Sir Keir Starmer has said a big majority would be “better for the country”, as the Tories ...
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 and its 14-year long tenure in government.
Since the 2024 general election, the Labour Party has been the governing party of the United Kingdom and the largest political party in the House of Commons, followed by the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats. As of 2024, there have been seven Labour prime ministers and fourteen Labour ministries.