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On the day of the election, polling stations across the country were open from 7 am, and closed at 10 pm. The date chosen for the 2024 general election made it the first to be held in July since the 1945 general election almost exactly seventy-nine years earlier. A total of 4,515 candidates were nominated, more than in any previous general ...
The 2024 general election resulted in a landslide victory for the Labour Party led by Keir Starmer. The Conservative Party under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak lost 251 seats and suffered their worst ever defeat, ending their 14-year tenure as the primary governing party. The combined vote share for Labour and the Conservatives reached a record low ...
5 July 2024: Sir Keir Starmer becomes the new British prime minister, succeeding Rishi Sunak. 5 July Results of the 2024 United Kingdom general election: Sir Keir Starmer becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following a landslide victory for Labour in the general election. [567] [568]
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 Elections Act introduced by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2022 was enforced, ironically, earlier this year when Johnson tried to vote without ID in a local election in South ...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called a new election for July 4, setting his ruling Conservative Party the challenge of overturning dismal polling if it is to retain its 14-year hold on ...
New 0.0 5,077 0.02 New Lincolnshire Independents: Marianne Overton 2 0 0 0 0.0 4,277 0.01 One Leicester Rita Patel 2 0 New 0.0 4,008 0.01 New Socialist Labour Party: Jim McDaid 12 0 0 0 0.0 3,609 0.01 Liverpool Community Independents: Alan Gibbons: 1 0 New 0.0 3,293 0.01 New Swale Independents: Mike Baldock 1 0 Did not stand in 2019 0.0 3,238 0 ...
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday set a general election date for July 4, ending months of speculation about when he would go to the country.