2024 United Kingdom General Election

2024 United Kingdom general election

July 4, 2024 (2024-07-04)
All 650 seats in the House of Commons 326 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
First party Second party Third party   Leader Keir Starmer Rishi Sunak Ed Davey Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats Leader since 2020 2022 2020 Leader's seat Holborn and St. Pancras Richmond and Northallerton Kingston and Surbiton Last election 202 365 11 Seats won 350 192 47 Seat change 153 184 46 Percentage 36% 27% 14% Swing 4 16 2.4   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader John Swinney Carla Denyer Adrian Ramsay Nigel Farage Party SNP Green Reform UK Leader since 2024 1 October 2021 2024 Leader's seat Did not stand N/A N/A Last election 1 Seats before 43 1 Seats won 31 2 2 Seat change 17 1 Percentage 3.5 5% 11% Swing 0.4 2.4 8.9
Prime Minister before election Rishi Sunak Conservative Elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer Labour

The 2024 United Kingdom General Election was held on the July 4th 2024. The Labour Party under Keir Starmer won a landslide victory against the governing Conservatives led by Rishi Sunak, losing nearly half of their seats.

The previous election saw a slightly larger landslide in favour of Boris Johnson's conservatives, however the covid pandemic, scandal and economic crisis led to a sudden shift in public opinion. The polls however predicted a considerably larger conservative defeat, with the Rishi Sunak's own seat seen as vulnerable. The result however was, though a significant Labour victory, a far better result for the Conservatives than predicted, possibly because of the Shy Tory factor. With the rapid rise of Nigel Farage's Reform UK squeezing the party's vote share, some estimatimated the Liberal Democrats could become the second largest party.

Labour won its first victory since Tony Blair's third win in 2005.