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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 is a list of elections in the United Kingdom scheduled to be held in 2024. Included are local elections, by-elections on any level, referendums and internal party elections. Dates
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.
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. [25] The Liberal Democrats held Oxford West and Abingdon and the Greens held Brighton Pavilion. [26]
2024 Budapest mayoral election; 2024 Budapest Assembly election Iceland. 2024 Icelandic presidential election, 1 June; 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election, 30 November Ireland. 2024 Irish local elections, 7 June; 2024 Irish general election, 29 November Italy. 2024 Italian local elections, 8–9 June (first round) & 23–25 June (second round)
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.
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.