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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 ...
In November 2024, a petition was initiated calling for a general election in the UK after the Labour party allegedly broke several campaign promises following the 2024 general election. This petition was signed over 1 million times within a 24 hour period, [33] and has the most signatures of any petition for this government, reaching over 3 ...
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 ...
This national electoral calendar for 2024 lists the national/federal elections held in 2024 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included.
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 ...
This culminated in a petition calling for an early general election on the UK Parliament website being started in November 2024 which reached over 2 million signatures within 2 days. Starmer responded to the petition by saying "I'm not surprised, quite frankly, that as we're doing the tough stuff there are plenty of people who say 'well I'm ...
Results of the July 2024 general election to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom [4] [5] Affiliate Leader Candidates MPs Aggregate votes Total Gained [c] Lost [c] Net Of total (%) Total Of total (%) Change (%) Labour: Keir Starmer: 631 411 218 7 211 63.2 9,708,716 33.70 1.6 Conservative: Rishi Sunak: 635 121 1 252 251 18.6 6,828,925 23. ...