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2024 in British radio. 2024 in United Kingdom politics and government. United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. Events from the year 2024 in the United Kingdom. This year is noted for a landslide general election victory for the Labour Party under Keir Starmer.
2024 election. MPs. The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024 to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The opposition Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, defeated the governing Conservative Party, led by Rishi Sunak, in a landslide victory.
Reform UK placed third in the share of the vote in the 2024 election and had MPs elected to the Commons for the first time. [2] The Green Party of England and Wales also won a record number of seats alongside a number of independent MPs. [3] The Scottish National Party (SNP) lost around three quarters of its seats. [4]
This is the results breakdown of the 2024 general election on 4 July 2024. [ 1 ] 2024 United Kingdom general election. ← 2019. 4 July 2024. 2029 →. elected members. All 650 seats in the House of Commons 326 [ a ] seats needed for a majority. Turnout.
7.3%. Swing. 13.3% [ b ] 4.3%. *Seat figure does not include Speaker of the House of Commons Lindsay Hoyle, who was included in the Labour seat total by some media outlets. The 2024 United Kingdom general election in England was held on Thursday 4 July across 543 constituencies within the nine regions in England.
2024 State Opening of Parliament. A State Opening of the Parliament of the United Kingdom took place on 17 July 2024 when King Charles III opened the first session of the Parliament elected in 2024, which was the first after the 2024 general election. Charles III delivered the King's Speech, his second as monarch [a], and the first since ...
The dates of these opinion polls range from the previous general election on 4 July 2024 to the present. The next general election must be held no later than 15 August 2029 under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022. The Act mandates that any Parliament automatically dissolves five years after it first met – unless it is ...
For an in-depth analysis of these results, see Results breakdown of the 2024 United Kingdom general election. 2024 United Kingdom general election(4 July) Incumbent government. Rishi Sunak.