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Elections

Labour won 411 seats, up 209 on their total from the 2019 election.

The Conservatives won 121 seats, down 244 from their 2019 total of 365 seats. The Liberal Democrats gained 61 seats for a total of 72, while the Scottish National Party won nine seats, down from 48 in 2019.
Reform UK won five seats and the Green Party of England and Wales won four. Sinn FΓ©in won seven seats in Northern Ireland (unchanged on 2019), while the Democratic Unionist Party won five (down three on 2019).

The charts below show the figures for all parties.

Bar chart showing the number of successful candidacies for each party. See spreadsheet download for full data

Bar chart showing change in the number of seats for each party


300 MPs were re-elected, while 335 successful candidates are becoming MPs for the first time. 15 are becoming MPs again after a gap in service (that is, they have been MPs at some point in the past, but were not MPs at the time of the May 2024 dissolution).

387 of those elected are men (59.5%) and 263 are women (40.5% – a record high).

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