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13 April 2024 Reform UK: Joe Dyas Shrewsbury: Prior social media posts supporting the British National Party. [200] 15 April 2024 Reform UK: Trevor Nicholls Warrington North: Controversial comments. [201] 6 May 2024 Reform UK: Richard Carr Poole: Time issues. [202] 8 May 2024 Workers Party of Britain: Monty Panesar: Ealing Southall: Personal ...
The 2024 United Kingdom general election took place on 4 July 2024. [1] Counting began after conclusion of voting at 22:00 the same day and the results for almost all constituencies were declared in the early hours of 5 July. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party lost over 240 seats and its 14-year long tenure in government.
2024 London Assembly election; 2024 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections; 2024 Blackpool South by-election; Council by-elections. 48 Council by-elections were also held on 2 May 2024 in authorities otherwise without elections scheduled:
Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (2022) 2017: 2017 Luke Myer: Labour: Theo Clarke [35] Stafford: 2019: 2010 Leigh Ingham: Labour: Brendan Clarke-Smith [36] Bassetlaw: Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party (2023–2024) 2019: 2019 Jo White: Labour: Chris Clarkson [37] Stratford-on-Avon [n 7] 2019: 2019 Manuela ...
With no election date fixed in law, there was speculation as to when the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, would call an election. On 18 December 2023, Sunak told journalists that the election would take place in 2024 rather than January 2025. [64] On 4 January, he first suggested the general election would probably be in the second half of 2024. [65]
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. [2] The Green Party of England and Wales also won a record number of seats alongside a number of independent MPs. [3] The Scottish National Party (SNP) lost around three quarters of its seats. [4]
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 74 seats in the region and Labour won 8. [20] The Liberal Democrats held Oxford West and Abingdon and the Greens held Brighton Pavilion. [21]
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 ...