| Election Name: | Next United Kingdom general election |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Previous Election: | 2024 |
| Outgoing Members: | List of MPs elected in the 2024 United Kingdom general election |
| Opinion Polls: | Opinion Polls |
| Election Date: | No later than 15 August 2029 |
| Seats For Election: | All 650 seats in the House of Commons. |
| Majority Seats: | 326 |
| Ongoing: | yes |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Party Leader1: | Keir Starmer |
| Last Election1: | 411 |
| Current Seats1: | 404 |
| Party2: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Last Election2: | 121 |
| Current Seats2: | 121 |
| Party3: | Liberal Democrats |
| Party Leader3: | Ed Davey |
| Last Election3: | 72 |
| Current Seats3: | 72 |
| Party4: | Scottish National Party |
| Party Leader4: | John Swinney |
| Last Election4: | 9 |
| Current Seats4: | 9 |
| Party5: | Sinn Féin |
| Last Election5: | 7 |
| Current Seats5: | 7 |
| Party6: | Reform UK |
| Party Leader6: | Nigel Farage |
| Last Election6: | 5 |
| Current Seats6: | 5 |
| Party7: | Democratic Unionist Party |
| Party Leader7: | Gavin Robinson |
| Last Election7: | 5 |
| Current Seats7: | 5 |
| Party8: | Green |
| Last Election8: | 4 |
| Current Seats8: | 4 |
| Party9: | Plaid Cymru |
| Party Leader9: | Rhun ap Iorwerth |
| Last Election9: | 4 |
| Current Seats9: | 4 |
| Party10: | Social Democratic and Labour Party |
| Party Leader10: | Colum Eastwood |
| Last Election10: | 2 |
| Current Seats10: | 2 |
| Party11: | Alliance Party of Northern Ireland |
| Party Leader11: | Naomi Long |
| Last Election11: | 1 |
| Current Seats11: | 1 |
| Party12: | Ulster Unionist Party |
| Last Election12: | 1 |
| Current Seats12: | 1 |
| Party13: | Traditional Unionist Voice |
| Party Leader13: | Jim Allister |
| Last Election13: | 1 |
| Current Seats13: | 1 |
| Party14: | Independents |
| Last Election14: | 6 |
| Current Seats14: | 13 |
| Party15: | Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom) |
| Party Leader15: | Lindsay Hoyle |
| Last Election15: | 1 |
| Current Seats15: | 1 |
| Prime Minister | |
| Before Election: | Keir Starmer |
| Before Party: | Labour |
| Rwp: | Dylan wright 0 |
The next United Kingdom general election is scheduled to be held no later than Wednesday 15 August 2029. It will determine the composition of the House of Commons, which determines the government of the United Kingdom.
The 2024 general election resulted in a landslide victory for the Labour Party led by Keir Starmer. The Conservative Party under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak lost 251 seats and suffered their worst ever defeat, ending their 14-year tenure as the primary governing party. The combined vote share for Labour and the Conservatives reached a record low, with smaller parties doing well. The Liberal Democrats made significant gains to reach their highest ever number of seats. 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.[1] The Green Party of England and Wales also won a record number of seats alongside a number of independent MPs.[2] The Scottish National Party (SNP) lost around three quarters of its seats.[3] Labour returned to being the largest party in Scotland and remained so in Wales. The Conservatives won no seats in Wales and only one seat in North East England.
See also: Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011.
In order to vote in the general election, barring any changes in eligibility rules, one must be:[4]
Individuals must be registered to vote by midnight twelve working days before polling day. Anyone who qualifies as an anonymous elector has approximately five working days before polling day to register. A person who has two homes (such as a university student who has a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) may be able to register to vote at both addresses as long as they are not in the same electoral area, but can only vote in one constituency at the general election.
Under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, the prime minister has the power to request the monarch call an election at any time during the five-year length of a parliamentary session. If the prime minister chooses not to do this, then parliament is automatically dissolved five years after the day it first met,[5] and a general election is held 25 working days after dissolution.[6] The 2024 parliament first met on 9 July 2024,[7] meaning that if an election isn't called, parliament will be automatically dissolved on 9 July 2029, and the latest an election could be held is 15 August 2029.
See main article: Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election. Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election is being carried out continually by various organisations to gauge voting intention. Most of the polling companies listed are members of the British Polling Council (BPC) and abide by its disclosure rules. The dates for these opinion polls range from the 2024 general election on 4 July to the present day.
Under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, the next general election must be held no later than Wednesday 15 August 2029. The Act mandates that, if it has not already been dissolved at the request of the prime minister, Parliament automatically dissolves five years after it first met and polling day occurs no more than 25 working days later.