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The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July to elect 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons. The governing Conservative Party, led by the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, was defeated in a landslide by the opposition Labour Party led by Keir Starmer . The election was the first victory for the Labour Party ...
Opinion polling for the 2024 United Kingdom general election was carried out by various organisations to gauge voting intention. Most of the polling companies listed are members of the British Polling Council (BPC) and abide by its disclosure rules.
The Conservatives are fighting a highly-defensive general election campaign, with Rishi Sunak visiting areas his party has won comfortably in the past, BBC analysis shows. The prime minister has ...
The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on 4 July 2024. These were the target seats for each of the political parties, according to notional results from the previous election in 2019. [1] These marginal seats are listed by notional swing required for each party to gain the seat. [2] They are not necessarily the seats that the parties ...
Paul Seddon - Politics reporter, BBC News. May 22, 2024 at 4:56 PM. Rishi Sunak has vowed to "fight for every vote" as he called an early UK general election for Thursday 4 July.
United Kingdom voters will cast ballots in a national election Thursday, passing judgment on Sunak’s 20 months in office, and on the four Conservative prime ministers before him.
On 7 June 2023, MP for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Gerald Jones defeated MP for Cynon Valley Beth Winter for his party's selection to become the Labour candidate for the new parliamentary seat of Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, which will be contested at the 2024 general election. [71]
Background. On 12 June 2024, The Guardian reported that a Conservative candidate in the election and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Craig Williams, had put a £100 bet on a July election with Ladbrokes in a branch in his constituency of Montgomeryshire on 19 May, three days before Rishi Sunak announced the election to the public on the 22nd.