2024 United Kingdom general election

The **2024 United Kingdom general election** was held on 4 July 2024. It determined the composition of the House of Commons, which determines the next Government of the United Kingdom. In addition, this was the first UK general election where physical forms of voter identification were needed to vote in Great Britain.

The Labour Party won with a landslide majority, leading to Keir Starmer replacing Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. The Conservative Party lost 244 seats, giving them their lowest number of seats (121) in the party's history.

## Background

Boris Johnson, the Conservatives leader, had won the last election in a landslide. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, resigned and was replaced by Keir Starmer.

Shortly after winning the election, Johnson passed the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020. Around the same time cases of Covid-19 started happening in the UK. Whilst Johnson and the Conservatives stayed ahead in the polls for most of 2020-2021, at the end of 2021 stories about parties in Downing Street during lockdown started appearing in the news (Partygate). Johnson's popularity suffered, and he was forced to resign later that year due to the Chris Pincher scandal.

Johnson was replaced as Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister by Liz Truss in September 2022. Truss made huge unfunded tax cuts which caused economic problems, and was forced to resign after just 50 days. She was replaced by Rishi Sunak.

When Sunak took over, the Conservatives were now far behind Labour in the polls. In May 2024 he called for an election to be held on 4 July of that year.

## Results

|Party|Seats|Leader/Leaders|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Labour Party|411 seats|Keir Starmer|
|Conservative Party|121 seats|Rishi Sunak|
|Liberal Democrats|72 seats|Ed Davey|
|Scottish National Party|9 seats|John Swinney|
|Sinn Féin|7 seats|Mary Lou McDonald|
|Reform UK|5 seats|Nigel Farage|
|Democratic Unionist Party|5 seats|Gavin Robinson|
|Green Party of England and Wales|4 seats|Carla Denyer Adrian Ramsay|
|Plaid Cymru|4 seats|Rhun ap Iorwerth|
|Social Democratic and Labour Party|2 seats|Colum Eastwood|
|Alliance Party of Northern Ireland|1 seat|Naomi Long|
|Ulster Unionist Party|1 seat|Doug Beattie|
|Traditional Unionist Voice|1 seat|Jim Allister|
|Speaker|1 seat|Lindsay Hoyle|

Sinn Féin's MPs do not go to the UK Parliament to take their seats because of the party's policy on not doing so.

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2024 United Kingdom general election
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **type**: parliamentary
- **ongoing**: no
- **previous election**: 2019 United Kingdom general election
- **previous year**: 2019
- **election date**: 4 July 2024
- **next election**: _Next_
- **next year**: _Next_
- **previous mps**: List of MPs elected in the 2019 United Kingdom general election
- **seats for election**: All Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 650 seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons
- **majority seats**: 326
- **opinion polls**: #Polling data
- **1blank**: Exit poll
- **image size**: 160x160px
- **leader1**: Keir Starmer
- **party1**: Labour Party (UK)
- **leader since1**: 2020 Labour Party leadership election (UK), 4 April 2020
- **leaders seat1**: Holborn and St Pancras (UK Parliament constituency), Holborn and
St Pancras
- **last election1**: 202 seats, 32.1%
- **seats1**: **411**
- **seat change1**: 209
- **popular vote1**: **9,708,716**
- **percentage1**: **33.7%**
- **swing1**: 1.6 Percentage point, pp
- **leader2**: Rishi Sunak
- **party2**: Conservative Party (UK)
- **leader since2**: October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, 24 October 2022
- **leaders seat2**: Richmond and Northallerton (UK Parliament constituency),  Richmond and Northallerton
- **last election2**: 365 seats, 43.6%
- **seats2**: 121
- **seat change2**: 244
- **popular vote2**: 6,828,925
- **percentage2**: 23.7%
- **swing2**: 19.9 Percentage point, pp
- **leader3**: Ed Davey
- **party3**: Liberal Democrats (UK)
- **leader since3**: 2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election, 27 August 2020
- **leaders seat3**: Kingston and Surbiton (UK Parliament constituency), Kingston and Surbiton
- **last election3**: 11 seats, 11.6%
- **seats3**: 72
- **seat change3**: 61
- **popular vote3**: 3,519,143
- **percentage3**: 12.2%
- **swing3**: 0.6 Percentage point, pp
- **map image**: 2024 United Kingdom general election - Result.svg
- **map caption**: A map presenting the results of the election, by party of the MP elected from each constituency.
- **map2 caption**: Composition of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons after the election
- **title**: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister
- **posttitle**: Prime Minister after election
- **before election**: Rishi Sunak
- **before party**: Conservative Party (UK), Conservative
- **after election**: Keir Starmer
- **after party**: Labour Party (UK), Labour