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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:
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.
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]
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 ...
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.
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]
This is a list of the next general elections around the world in sovereign states. The general elections listed are for the government of each jurisdiction. These elections determine the prime minister and makeup of the legislature in a parliamentary democracy, or the president and then the legislature in a system where separate votes are taken for different tiers of government.
The dates of these opinion polls range from the previous general election on 4 July 2024 to the present. 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 ...