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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.
UK parliamentary election results, 1950–2024 UK general elections by popular vote (in millions, since 1945). United Kingdom general elections are held following a dissolution of Parliament. All the members of Parliament (MPs) forming the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are elected.
This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in the United Kingdom since 2010, with the names of the incumbent and victor and their respective parties. Where seats changed political party at the election, the result is highlighted: blue for a Conservative gain, red for a Labour gain, orange for a Liberal Democrat gain, purple for a UKIP gain and other colours for any other gains.
The Brexit Party rebranded as Reform UK, and was initially led by Richard Tice in the years preceding the election before Nigel Farage resumed leadership during the election campaign. [40] Edwin Poots took over as the Democratic Unionist Party leader in May 2021 but lasted only 20 days.
This is an overview of United Kingdom general election results since 1922. The 1922 election was the first election in the new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , after the creation of the Irish Free State removed Southern Ireland from the UK.
Elections are held on Election Day, which is conventionally a Thursday. Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, all five types of elections are held after fixed periods, though early elections to the UK parliament occurred in both 2017 and 2019. [1] [2] After winning the 2019 election, the Conservative Party committed to repealing the FTPA. [3]
Reform UK placed third in the share of the vote in the 2024 election and had MPs elected to the Commons for the first time. [12] Farage and his party Reform UK have done well in opinion polls at the expense of both Labour and the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats made significant gains to reach their highest ever number of seats.
The East of England elected 61 MPs, 3 more than the 58 elected in 2019 general election. [9] The election was fought under the boundaries created by the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies. [3] In the 2019 general election, the Conservatives won 52 seats in the region. [10] Labour won 5 and the Liberal Democrats won 1 seat . [11]