July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election

The **July - September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election** was to elect Boris Johnson's successor as leader of the Conservative Party.
After the government crisis Johnson announced his resignation on 7 July 2022.
The election was held between 12 July 2022 and 5 September 2022. Liz Truss won and became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

### Declared

|scope="col" style="width: 120px;"|Candidate|scope="col" style="width: 300px;"|Political office and constituency|scope="col" style="width: 180px;"|Campaign|scope="col" style="width: 120px;"|Date declared|scope="col" style="width: 180px;"|Proposer/ seconder**|scope="col" style="width: 50px;"|Ref|
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||Chancellor of the Exchequer MP for Richmond (Yorks)|Website|8 July 2022|Dominic Raab Mel Stride||||||||
||Foreign Secretary MP for South West Norfolk|Website|10 July 2022|Simon Clarke Thérèse Coffey||||||||

### Eliminated

|scope="col" style="width: 120px;"|Candidate|scope="col" style="width: 300px;"|Political office|scope="col" style="width: 180px;"|Campaign|scope="col" style="width: 120px;"|Declared|scope="col" style="width: 120px;"|Eliminated|scope="col" style="width: 180px;"|Proposer Seconder|scope="col" style="width: 180px;"|Endorsed**|scope="col" style="width: 50px;"|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Minister of State for Trade Policy MP for Portsmouth North|Website|10 July 2022|20 July 2022 (5th round)|Andrea Leadsom Craig Tracey|Liz Truss||||||||||
||Minister of State for Local Government, Faith and Communities MP for Saffron Walden|Website|8 July 2022|19 July 2022 (4th round)|Lee Rowley Julia Lopez|||||||||||
||Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee MP for Tonbridge and Malling|Website|7 July 2022|18 July 2022 (3rd round)|Anne-Marie Trevelyan James Daly|Liz Truss||||||||||
||Attorney General for England and Wales MP for Fareham|Website|6 July 2022|14 July 2022 (2nd round)|David Jones Miriam Cates|Liz Truss||||||||||
||Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee MP for South West Surrey|Website|9 July 2022|13 July 2022 (1st round)|Esther McVey Anthony Mangnall|Rishi Sunak||||||||||
||Chancellor of the Exchequer MP for Stratford-on-Avon||9 July 2022|13 July 2022 (1st round)|Brandon Lewis Amanda Milling|Liz Truss||||||||||

### Withdrew before voting

The following MPs announced that they would seek the leadership of the Conservative Party but subsequently did not stand, or withdrew from the race, due to insufficient support or other reasons before the first ballot was cast:
|scope="col" style="width: 120px;"|Candidate|scope="col" style="width: 300px;"|Political office|scope="col" style="width: 180px;"|Campaign|scope="col" style="width: 60px;"|Declared|scope="col" style="width: 60px;"|Withdrew|scope="col" style="width: 120px;"|Endorsed|scope="col" style="width: 50px;"|Ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Secretary of State for Transport MP for Welwyn Hatfield||9 July 2022|12 July 2022|Rishi Sunak|||||||||
||Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs MP for Gillingham and Rainham||10 July 2022|12 July 2022|Tom Tugendhat, then Rishi Sunak|||||||||
||Secretary of State for Health and Social Care MP for Bromsgrove|Website|9 July 2022|12 July 2022|Liz Truss|||||||||

### Declined

The following Conservative Party politicians publicly ruled themselves out of standing:
- Steve Baker, MP for Wycombe _(endorsed Braverman, then Truss)_
- Jake Berry, MP for Rossendale and Darwen _(endorsed Tugendhat, then Truss)_
- Nadine Dorries, MP for Mid Bedfordshire  _(endorsed Truss)_
- Tobias Ellwood, MP for Bournemouth East _(endorsed Zahawi, then Mordaunt)_
- Michael Gove, MP for Surrey Heath _(endorsed Badenoch)_
- Matt Hancock, MP for West Suffolk _(endorsed Sunak)_
- Mark Harper, MP for Forest of Dean _(endorsed Sunak)_
- Gillian Keegan, MP for Chichester _(endorsed Sunak)_
- Kwasi Kwarteng, MP for Spelthorne _(endorsed Truss)_
- Esther McVey, MP for Tatton _(endorsed Hunt)_
- Priti Patel, MP for Witham
- Dominic Raab, MP for Esher and Walton _(endorsed Sunak)_
- Jacob Rees-Mogg, MP for North East Somerset  _(endorsed Truss)_
- Ben Wallace, MP for Wyre and Preston North _(endorsed Truss)_

## Timeline

|colspan="2"|Candidate status||
| --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:#0047ab;"||Candidate on membership ballot|
|style="background:#007fcc;"||Candidate eliminated during MP ballots|
|style="background:#B0C4DE;"||Candidate withdrew|
|style="background:red;"||Boris Johnson announces resignation|
|style="background:orange;"||Nominations close|
|style="background:yellow;"||MP ballot|
|style="background:black;"||Results announced|

## Results

|rowspan="2"|% votes per round|rowspan="2"|Candidate|colspan="2"|MPs' 1st ballot: 13 July 2022|colspan="3"|MPs' 2nd ballot: 14 July 2022|colspan="3"|MPs' 3rd ballot: 18 July 2022|colspan="3"|MPs' 4th ballot: 19 July 2022|colspan="3"|MPs' 5th ballot: 20 July 2022|colspan="2"|Member's vote|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="12"||style="width: 170px; text-align:left"||50|14.0|64|+14|17.9|71|+7|19.8|86|+15|24.1|113|+27|31.6|**81,326**|**57.4**|
|style="width: 170px; text-align:left"||**88**|**24.6**|**101**|+13|**28.2**|**115**|+14|**32.1**|**118**|+3|**33.0**|**137**|+19|**38.3**|60,399|42.6|||
|style="width: 170px; text-align:left"||67|18.7|83|+16|23.2|82|−1|22.9|92|+10|25.8|105|+13|29.3|colspan="2"||||
|style="width: 170px; text-align:left"||40|11.2|49|+9|13.7|58|+9|16.2|59|+1|16.5|colspan="5"|||||||
|style="width: 170px; text-align:left"||37|10.3|32|−5|8.9|31|−1|8.7|colspan="8"||||||||||
|style="width: 170px; text-align:left"||32|8.9|27|−5|7.5|colspan="11"|||||||||||||
|style="width: 170px; text-align:left"||25|7.0|colspan="14"||||||||||||||||
|style="width: 170px; text-align:left"||18|5.0|colspan="14"||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:right;"|Spoilt ballots|0|0.0|0|0|0.0|0|0|0.0|1|+1|0.3|2|+1|0.6|654|0.4|||
|style="text-align:right;"|Abstentions|1|0.3|2|+1|0.6|1|−1|0.3|1|0|0.3|0|-1|0.0|30,058|17.4|||

### Final round

|Dates conducted|Pollster|Sample size|Rishi Sunak|Liz Truss|Will not vote|Don't know|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|16–17 Aug|Conservative Home|961 Conservative Party members|28%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**60%**|3%|9%||||
|8 Aug – 13 Aug|Opinium|570 Conservative Party members|31%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**68%**|colspan="2"|_N/A_||||
|12 Aug|techneUK|272 Conservative Party members|33%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**60%**|_N/A_|7%||||
|5 Aug|techneUK|261 Conservative Party members|36%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**56%**|_N/A_|8%||||
|3 Aug–4 Aug|Conservative Home|1,003 Conservative Party members|26%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**58%**|1%|12%||||
|rowspan="2"|29 Jul–2 Aug|rowspan="2"|YouGov|rowspan="2"|1,043 Conservative Party members|31%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**69%**|colspan="2"|_N/A_|
|26%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**60%**|2%|11%|||||||
|27–29 Jul|techneUK|807 Conservative Party members|43%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**48%**|colspan="2"|9%||||
|rowspan="2"|20–21 Jul|rowspan="2"|YouGov|rowspan="2"|730 Conservative Party members|38%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**62%**|colspan="2"|_N/A_|
|31%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**49%**|6%|15%|||||||
|18–19 Jul|Conservative Home|845 Conservative Party members|42%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**49%**|_N/A_|9%||||
|18–19 Jul|YouGov|725 Conservative Party members|35%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**54%**|_N/A_|10%||||
|12–13 Jul|YouGov|879 Conservative Party members|35%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**59%**|_N/A_|6%||||
|11–12 Jul|Conservative Home|929 Conservative Party members|34%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**51%**|_N/A_|14%||||
|6–8 Jul|Opinium|493 Conservative Party members|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**37%**|33%|8%|22%||||
|6–7 Jul|YouGov|716 Conservative Party members|38%|style="background:#CCEBFF;"|**43%**|_N/A_|19%||||

### Before 5th round

|Dates conducted|Pollster|Client|Sample size|Kemi Badenoch|Suella Braverman|Jeremy Hunt|Sajid Javid|Penny Mordaunt|Rishi Sunak|Liz Truss|Tom Tugendhat|Ben Wallace|Nadhim Zahawi|Others||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1–2 Aug 2022|YouGov|_N/A_|1,043|–|–|–|–|–|31%|style = "background:#CCEBFF;"|**69%**|–|–|–|–|
|12–13 Jul 2022|YouGov|_N/A_|879|15%|5%|4%|–|style = "background:#CCEBFF;"|**27%**|13%|13%|8%|–|1%||
|6–7 Jul 2022|YouGov|_N/A_|716|–|–|5%|4%|12%|10%|8%|6%|style = "background:#CCEBFF;"|**13%**|5%||

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
- **type**: presidential
- **ongoing**: no
- **turnout**: 82.6% (Members’ vote)  4.8
- **opinion polls**: #Opinion polling
- **previous election**: 2019 Conservative Party leadership election
- **previous year**: 2019
- **election date**: – 5 September 2022
- **next election**: October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
- **next year**: October 2022
- **votes for election**: #Results, Full results for all candidates below
- **1blank**: Fifth MPs' ballot
- **2blank**: Members' vote
- **image1**:
- **candidate1**: Liz Truss
- **1data1**: 113 (31.6%)
- **2data1**: **81,326 (57.4)**
- **image2**:
- **candidate2**: Rishi Sunak
- **1data2**: **137 (38.3%)**
- **2data2**: 60,399 (42.6)
- **title**: leader
- **before election**: Boris Johnson
- **after election**: Liz Truss