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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 dissolved earlier at the request of the prime minister – and polling day occurs no more than 25 working days ...
Across the 12 general elections from 1992 to 2024, the site correctly predicted the party to win the most seats in all but one (1992). They also correctly predicted the outcome, that is, the party winning a majority or a hung parliament, in six elections (majorities in 1997, 2001, 2005, 2015, 2017 (by a majority of only 3), 2019, 2024; hung parliament for 2010).
Under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, the prime minister has the power to request the monarch call an election at any time during the five-year length of a parliamentary session. If the prime minister chooses not to do this, then parliament is automatically dissolved five years after the day it first met, [ 21 ] and a ...
The next day, Zahawi and Donelan called for Johnson to resign, with Donelan herself resigning from the cabinet. [63] A poll by YouGov showed that 59% of Conservative Party members wanted Johnson to resign. [64] Johnson announced his pending resignation on the same day, 7 July, saying a new leader would take office before October 2022.
Both Reform UK and the Green Party also gained from the Conservatives. Liz Truss lost her own seat of South West Norfolk to Labour. [ 6 ] The only Conservative gain in England was Leicester East , where a split Labour vote between the official labour candidate and former Labour MPs Claudia Webbe and Keith Vaz depressed the Labour vote.
It was rebranded as Savanta ComRes in November 2019 [3] and as Savanta in December 2022. [4] In August 2023, the market research company Omnisis rebranded its public polling arm as We Think. [5] In October 2023, the Norstat group acquired Panelbase. [6] In November 2023, Kantar Public rebranded to Verian. [7]
COVID-19 in the UK: The latest COVID-19 data from the Office for National Statistics suggests 1.7 million people (roughly 2.7% of the population or one in 37) is infected with COVID-19, a rise from the previous week when the figure was one in 50. [545] 15 October – The delayed 2021 Rugby League World Cup begins. [546]
The chart below depicts opinion polls conducted in the lead up to the 2019 UK general election using a LOESS lines. As discussed below, most of these polls do not include Northern Ireland. The final points represent the actual results of the election.