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Turnout in UK general elections fell from 77% in 1992, and 71% in 1997, to a historic low of 59% in 2001. It has, however, increased, to 61% in 2005, 65% in 2010, 66% in 2015 and 69% in 2017. [156] Turnout has fallen since, to 67% in 2019 and to 59% in 2024. In other elections, turnout trends have been more varied.
Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election is being carried out continually by various organisations to gauge voting intention. Most of the polling companies listed are members of the British Polling Council (BPC) and abide by its disclosure rules. The dates for these opinion polls range from the 2024 general election on 4 ...
The election was the first general election victory for Labour since 2005, and ended the Conservatives' 14-year tenure as the primary governing party. Labour achieved a 174-seat simple majority, and a total of 411 seats, a single-party figure surpassed in modern times only by Stanley Baldwin and the Conservatives in 1924 and 1931 and by Tony ...
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.
There is little evidence of serious voter fraud in UK elections. Between 2015 and 2019, during which three general elections were held and 153 million in-person votes cast, only 88 allegations were made of voter fraud. [17] Between 2010 and 2018, there were just two convictions for voter fraud. [18]
Most of the polling companies listed are members of the British Polling Council (BPC) and abide by its disclosure rules. 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 ...
Richard Tice, leader of Reform UK, rules out a pact with the Conservative Party at the next general election. [7] 4 January – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says his "working assumption" is that the general election will take place in the second half of this year. [8]
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 ...