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4 July – The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held. [18] Council by-election in Madeley and Betley ward to elect two new councillors on Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council. [19] 20 July – July 2024 Welsh Labour leadership election
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 ...
7 January: Bangladesh, Parliament [10] 9 January: Bhutan, National Assembly (2nd round) [11] 11 January: Sint Maarten, Parliament [12] 13 January: Taiwan, President and Parliament [13] 14 January: Comoros, President [14] 21 January: Liechtenstein, Referendums [15] [16] 26 January: Tuvalu, Parliament [17] 28 January: Finland, President (1st ...
2024 general election: Parliament is prorogued ahead of the general election. [458] 25 May RAF pilot Mark Long is killed after the Spitfire he was flying crashes near RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. [459] [460] 2024 general election: Rishi Sunak announces a plan to bring back a form of mandatory national service for 18-year-olds if his party is ...
The list of candidates standing in the 2024 general election is published, with more than 4,500 candidates setting a new record for the number of people standing at an election. [480] Douglas Ross announces his resignation as leader of the Scottish Conservatives, triggering a leadership election. Ross says he will also resign from Holyrood if ...
South West England elected 58 MPs, which is 3 more than the 55 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 48 seats in the region and Labour won 6. [23] The Liberal Democrats held Bath ...
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 ...
The dates of these opinion polls range from the previous general election on 4 July 2024 to the present. The next general election must be held no later than 15 August 2029 under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022. The Act mandates that any Parliament automatically dissolves five years after it first met – unless it is ...