Next United Kingdom general election - wikipedia Next United Kingdom general election Next United Kingdom general election ← 2017 5 May 2022 ( For possibility of early election, see § Date of the election. ) ← outgoing members All 650 seats in the House of Commons 326 seats needed for a majority Opinion polls Leader Theresa May Jeremy Corbyn Nicola Sturgeon Party Conservative Labour SNP Leader since 11 July 2016 12 September 2015 14 November 2014 Leader 's seat Maidenhead Islington North none Last election 317 seats, 42.3 % 262 seats, 40.0 % 35 seats, 3.0 % Current seats 315 260 35 Seats needed 11 66 N / A Leader Vince Cable Arlene Foster Gerry Adams Party Liberal Democrat DUP Sinn Féin Leader since 20 July 2017 17 December 2015 13 November 1983 Leader 's seat Twickenham none none Last election 12 seats, 7.4 % 10 seats, 0.9 % 7 seats, 0.8 % Current seats 12 10 7 Seats needed 314 N / A N / A Incumbent Prime Minister Theresa May Conservative 2010 election MPs 2015 election MPs 2017 election MPs The next general election in the United Kingdom is scheduled to be held on 5 May 2022 under the Fixed - term Parliaments Act 2011. The election may be held at an earlier date in the event of an early election motion being passed by a super-majority of two - thirds in the House of Commons, a vote of no confidence in the government or other exceptional circumstances. Under the current Brexit timetable, and should no snap election be called, it is scheduled to be the first general election since 1970 to be held with the United Kingdom outside the European Union and its predecessor the European Communities. Contents 1 Electoral system 1.1 Voting eligibility 1.2 Boundary review 2 Date of the election 3 Contesting political parties and candidates 4 Opinion polling and seat projections 5 Footnotes 6 References Electoral system See also : Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Each parliamentary constituency of the United Kingdom elects one MP to the House of Commons using the `` first past the post '' system. Voting eligibility In order to vote in the general election, one must be : on the Electoral Register ; aged 18 or over on polling day ; a British, Irish or Commonwealth citizen ; a resident at an address in the United Kingdom ( or a British citizen living abroad who has been registered to vote in the UK in the last 15 years ) ; and not legally excluded from voting ( for example a convicted person detained in prison or a mental hospital, or unlawfully at large if he / she would otherwise have been detained, or a person found guilty of certain corrupt or illegal practices ) or disqualified from voting ( peers sitting in the House of Lords ). Individuals must be registered to vote by midnight twelve working days before polling day. Anyone who qualifies as an anonymous elector has until midnight six working days before polling day to register. A person who has two homes ( such as a university student who has a term - time address and lives at home during holidays ) may be able to register to vote at both addresses as long as they are not in the same electoral area, but can only vote in one constituency at the general election. It is current UK government policy to pass a law removing the 15 - year limit on expatriate Britons voting before the next general election takes place, as mentioned in the 2017 Conservative Party manifesto, which stated ( page 42 ) `` We will legislate for votes for life for British overseas electors ''. Boundary Review The postponed Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies proposed reducing the number of constituencies from 650 to 600. In April 2016, each of the four parliamentary Boundary Commissions of the United Kingdom recommenced the review process, to be implemented in 2018. Date of the election The Fixed - term Parliaments Act 2011 introduced fixed - term parliaments to the United Kingdom, with elections scheduled on the first Thursday in May of the fifth year after the previous general election. Removing the power of the monarch, on advice of the prime minister, to dissolve parliament before its five - year maximum length, the act permits early dissolution if the House of Commons votes by a two - thirds supermajority, as occurred in the 2017 general election. Parliament is also dissolved if a government loses a vote of no confidence by a simple majority and a new government is not formed within 14 days. The next general election is due to take place on 5 May 2022. Under the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 parliament would be dissolved 25 working days before this date on 28 March 2022. Under the Fixed - term Parliaments Act the prime minister may schedule polling day up to two months after 5 May 2022, subject to approval by both Houses. The Conservative Party manifesto at the 2017 general election proposed repealing the Fixed - term Parliaments Act 2011. Contesting political parties and candidates Most candidates are representatives of a political party, which must be registered with the Electoral Commission 's Register of Political Parties. Candidates who do not belong to a registered party can use an `` independent '' label, or no label at all. The Conservative Party and Labour Party have been the two biggest political parties, and have supplied every Prime Minister, since 1922 ( with the exception of Ramsay MacDonald, who served as Prime Minister from 1931 to 1935 as a member of the National Labour Organisation ). Parties in the tables below are sorted by their results in the 2017 general election. The leader of the party commanding a majority of support in the House of Commons is the person who is called on by the monarch to form a government as Prime Minister, while the leader of the largest party not in government becomes the Leader of the Opposition. Other parties also form shadow ministerial teams. The leaders of the SNP and Plaid Cymru are not members of parliament, but instead members of their respective devolved legislatures, and so these parties have separate leaders in the House of Commons ( Ian Blackford for the SNP and Liz Saville Roberts in the case of Plaid Cymru ). Party Party leader ( s ) Leader since Leader 's seat Last election % of votes Seats Conservative Party Theresa May July 2016 Maidenhead 42.3 % 317 Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn September 2015 Islington North 40.0 % 262 Scottish National Party Nicola Sturgeon November 2014 None 3.0 % 35 Liberal Democrats Vince Cable July 2017 Twickenham 7.4 % 12 Plaid Cymru Leanne Wood March 2012 None 0.5 % Green Party of England and Wales Caroline Lucas Jonathan Bartley September 2016 Brighton Pavilion None 1.6 % Tim Farron announced his departure as Liberal Democrat leader shortly after the June 2017 election, staying on in a caretaker basis pending the Liberal Democrats leadership election. He was replaced by Vince Cable. Northern Ireland Northern Ireland has different parties to the rest of the UK. Party Leader ( s ) Leader since Leader 's seat Last election % ( in NI ) Seats Democratic Unionist Party Arlene Foster December 2015 None 36.0 % 10 Sinn Féin Gerry Adams November 1983 None 29.4 % 7 Social Democratic and Labour Party Colum Eastwood November 2015 None 11.7 % 0 Ulster Unionist Party Robin Swann April 2017 None 10.3 % 0 Alliance Party of Northern Ireland Naomi Long October 2016 None 7.9 % 0 Opinion polling and seat projections Main article : Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election Opinion polls have been carried out for the next United Kingdom general election. Footnotes Jump up ^ The Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies is currently due to be implemented in 2018 and would reduce the number of seats to 600. Jump up ^ Nicola Sturgeon sits as an MSP in the Scottish Parliament. Jump up ^ Party only stands in Scotland. Jump up ^ Seat figure does not include Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow, who is included in the Conservative seat total by some media outlets. ^ Jump up to : Gerry Adams sits as a TD in the Irish Dáil Éireann. ^ Jump up to : Party only stands in Northern Ireland. ^ Jump up to : Arlene Foster sits as an MLA in the Northern Ireland Assembly for Fermanagh and South Tyrone. Jump up ^ Or, in the case of a British citizen who moved abroad before the age of 18, if his / her parent / guardian was on the Electoral Register in the UK in the last 15 years Jump up ^ The deadline for the receipt and determination of anonymous electoral registration applications is one working day before the publication date of the notice of alteration to the Electoral Register ( that is the sixth working day before polling day ). Jump up ^ Nicola Sturgeon sits as an MSP in the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Southside. Jump up ^ Leanne Wood sits as an AM in the Welsh Assembly for the Rhondda. Jump up ^ Colum Eastwood sits as an MLA in the Northern Ireland Assembly for Foyle. Jump up ^ Robin Swann sits as an MLA in the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Antrim. Jump up ^ Naomi Long sits as an MLA in the Northern Ireland Assembly for East Belfast. References Jump up ^ `` Representation of the People Act 1983, Section 1 ''. Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 April 2017. Jump up ^ `` Types of election, referendums, and who can vote ''. gov.uk. HM Government. Retrieved 18 April 2017. Jump up ^ Representation of the People Act 1983, Sections 3 and 3A Jump up ^ Representation of the People Act 1983, Section 173 Jump up ^ `` House of Lords Act 1999 ''. Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2017. Jump up ^ `` House of Lords Reform Act 2014, Section 4 ''. Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2017. Jump up ^ Electoral Commission : Deadline for registration ahead of an election. Jump up ^ cf `` Guidance for Electoral Registration Officers ( Part 4 -- Maintaining the register throughout the year ) '' ( PDF ). Cabinet Office and The Electoral Commission. July 2016. p. 114 ( para 7.128 ). Retrieved 8 June 2017. Jump up ^ Electoral Commission ( 2016 ). `` I have two homes. Can I register at both addresses ? ''. electoralcommission.org.uk. The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 5 January 2011. Jump up ^ `` Boundary review launched ''. Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 29 April 2016. Jump up ^ `` 2018 Review of Westminster Parliamentary constituencies ''. Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 3 May 2016. Jump up ^ `` 2018 Review ''. Boundary Commission for Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2016. ^ Jump up to : Horne, Alexander ; Kelly, Richard. `` Alexander Horne and Richard Kelly : Prerogative powers and the Fixed - term Parliaments Act ''. UK Constitutional Law Association. Retrieved 17 August 2015. Jump up ^ `` House of Commons Debate 5 July 2010 c 23 ''. parliament.uk. UK Parliament. 5 July 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2013. Jump up ^ Tuft, Ben. `` When will the next UK General Election be held ? ''. The Independent. Retrieved 17 August 2015. Jump up ^ `` General election timetable 2015 ''. parliament.uk. UK Parliament. Retrieved 8 December 2014. 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Question: when will the next general election be held in the uk
Answer: 5 May 2022