2024 United Kingdom General Election

The United Kingdom held a snap parliamentary election on July 4, 2024. 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 Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, secured its third-largest victory in party history. Labour won 411 seats to easily form a majority government, posting 209 gains compared to the previous election in 2019. The party's landslide victory—despite having only won 33.7% of the popular vote—made this the least proportional election in U.K. history. The party's tremendous gains on such a low percentage of the vote were likely the result of vote-splitting between the Conservative and Reform UK parties.

The incumbent Conservative Party saw its worst-ever performance after winning only 121 seats, a loss of 244 seats compared to their 2019 showing. The Conservatives had been in power since the 2010 general election, surviving three subsequent election cycles (2015, 2017, 2019) and five prime ministers (Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, and Sunak).

Smaller parties won a collective 42.6% of the popular vote, an all-time high in a U.K. parliamentary election. The Liberal Democrats and the newly formed Reform UK combined for more than one-quarter of the popular vote.