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The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. 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 .
Most national opinion polls do not cover Northern Ireland, which has different major political parties from the rest of the United Kingdom. This distinction is made in the tables below in the area column, where "GB" means Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), and "UK" means the entire United Kingdom .
List of cities in the United Kingdom. Examples of major urban areas in the United Kingdom; Liverpool, Edinburgh, Newcastle upon Tyne; and London. This is a list of cities in the United Kingdom that are officially designated such as of 12 November 2022. [1] [2] It lists those places that have been granted city status by letters patent or royal ...
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom ( UK) or Britain, [m] is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. [21] [22] It comprises England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
This is a list of United Kingdom general elections (elections for the UK House of Commons) since the first in 1802. The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is ...
The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 12 December 2019, with 47,567,752 registered voters [3] entitled to vote to elect 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons. The governing Conservative Party led by the prime minister, Boris Johnson, won a landslide victory with a majority of 80 seats, [n 5] a net gain ...
The Liberal Democrats were the third largest party until the 2015 general election when they were overtaken by the Scottish National Party in terms of seats and UK political party membership, and by the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in terms of votes. House of Commons chamber. House of Lords chamber. The UK's first-past-the-post electoral system ...
The UK Prime Minister's website has used the phrase "countries within a country" to describe the United Kingdom. Although the United Kingdom is a unitary sovereign country, it contains three distinct legal jurisdictions in Scotland, England and Wales, and Northern Ireland, each retaining its own legal system even after joining the UK.