2024 United Kingdom general election in Wales

2024 United Kingdom general election in Wales
4 July 2024
All 32 Welsh seats to the House of Commons
Turnout56.0% 10.6%
  First party Second party
 
Leader Keir Starmer Rhun ap Iorwerth
Party Labour Plaid Cymru
Leader since 4 April 2020 16 June 2023
Last election 22 seats, 40.9% 4 seats, 9.9%
Seats before 21 3
Seats won 27 4
Seat change 9‡ 2‡
Popular vote 487,636 194,812
Percentage 37.0% 14.8%
Swing 3.9% 4.9%
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Ed Davey Rishi Sunak
Party Liberal Democrats Conservative
Leader since 27 August 2020 24 October 2022
Last election 0 seats, 6.0% 14 seats, 36.1%
Seats before 0 13
Seats won 1 0
Seat change 1‡ 12‡
Popular vote 85,911 240,003
Percentage 6.5% 18.2%
Swing 0.5% 17.9%
Results by constituency
  • ‡ owing to electoral boundaries changing, this figure is notional

The 2024 general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024. Thirty-two seats were up for election in Wales as the general election occurred after the recently completed boundary review took effect. The Labour Party remained the largest party in Wales, gaining six seats for a total of 27. Both Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats made gains, taking them to four seats and one seat respectively. The Conservatives lost all thirteen seats they had held previously, leaving the party without Westminster representation from Wales for the first time since 2005.

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