2019 United Kingdom General Election

The United Kingdom held a snap parliamentary election on December 12, 2019. All 650 seats in the House of Commons were up for election, and a party needed to win at least 326 seats to form a majority government.

The Conservative Party won a minority government in 2017, boosted by the Democratic Unionist Party. Prime Minister Theresa May resigned her position in July 2019 after failing to pass legislation surrounding the U.K.'s withdrawal from the European Union. May's successor Boris Johnson was also unable to pass the legislation, and he chose to resolve the impasse by calling a snap election.

The incumbent Conservative Party gained nearly 50 seats to easily form a majority government. The Scottish National Party also gained more than a dozen seats. These gains came at the expense of the Labour Party, which saw its support precipitously decline compared to the previous election in 2017.