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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:
21 February 2024 Reform UK: David Carpin Henley and Thame: Homophobic and transphobic social media posts from 2023. [165] [166] 21 March 2024 Reform UK: Ginny Ball Rutland and Stamford: Alleged racist and xenophobic social media posts from 2023. [167] 22 March 2024 Reform UK: Benjamin Dade South Swindon: Xenophobic comments made on a far-right ...
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
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]
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. [12] Farage and his party Reform UK have done well in opinion polls in expense of both Labour and the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats made significant gains to reach their highest ever number of seats.
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]
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.
This is a list of elections that were held in 2024. [1] [2] The National Democratic Institute also maintains a calendar of elections around the world. 2024 United Nations Security Council election; 2024 national electoral calendar; 2024 local electoral calendar