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Prospective parliamentary candidates were selected for the 2024 general election. [1] Due to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, most constituency boundaries changed at this election. The tables below show both the new and old constituency names. Candidates might have been selected on either the old or the new boundaries. [2]
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 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in a landslide victory.
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 former foreign secretary and ex-health secretary has been a persistent backbench critic of Mr Johnson and has called on the Prime Minister to quit.
Liz Truss announced her resignation on Thursday after only 45 days in office, making her the shortest-serving U.K. prime minister in history. As a result, members of the Conservative Party’s ...
U.S. President Donald Trump is visiting Britain this week on a state visit and is likely to urge the government to decide against allowing Chinese company Huawei to take part in its 5G telecoms ...
Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party (2023–2024) 2019: 2019 Jo White: Labour: Chris Clarkson [37] Stratford-on-Avon [n 7] 2019: 2019 Manuela Perteghella: Liberal Democrats: Thérèse Coffey [38] Suffolk Coastal: Deputy Prime Minister (2022) 2010: 1983 Jenny Riddell-Carpenter: Labour: Elliot Colburn [39] Carshalton and Wallington: 2019: ...
Under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, the prime minister has the power to request the monarch call an election at any time during the five-year length of a parliamentary session. If the prime minister chooses not to do this, then parliament is automatically dissolved five years after the day it first met, [ 21 ] and a ...