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2024 election. MPs. The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024 to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The opposition Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, defeated the governing Conservative Party, led by Rishi Sunak, in a landslide victory.
This is the results breakdown of the 2024 general election on 4 July 2024. [ 1 ] 2024 United Kingdom general election. ← 2019. 4 July 2024. 2029 →. elected members. All 650 seats in the House of Commons 326 [ a ] seats needed for a majority. Turnout.
2024 Southport stabbing: Three girls are killed and ten others, eight children and two adults, are injured in a mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift -themed dance and yoga event in Southport, Merseyside. [ 653 ] Two of the girls are killed at the scene, and the third dies from her injuries the following day. [ 653 ]
Swing. 13.3% [b] 4.3%. *Seat figure does not include Speaker of the House of Commons Lindsay Hoyle, who was included in the Labour seat total by some media outlets. The 2024 United Kingdom general election in England was held on Thursday 4 July across 543 constituencies within the nine regions in England.
Constituency County Region 2019 seat 2024 seat Votes Turnout [a]; Party Candidate Votes Of total Margin, of total Lab. [b] Con. Ref. Lib. Dems Green Other [c] Total
5 July. Results of the 2024 United Kingdom general election: Sir Keir Starmer becomes the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following a landslide victory for Labour in the general election. [ 586 ][ 587 ] The Conservatives are reduced to just 121 seats, the lowest number of MPs in their 190-year history.
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]
9 July 2024 –. In the United Kingdom's 2024 general election, 650 members of Parliament were elected to the country's House of Commons – one for each parliamentary constituency. [ 1 ] The UK Parliament consists of the elected House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the Sovereign. [ 2 ] The new Parliament first met on 9 July 2024. [ 3 ]