Next UK general election

Next United Kingdom general election

← 2017 On or before 5 May 2022
← outgoing members
All 650 seats in the House of Commons 326 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Leader Theresa May Jeremy Corbyn Nicola Sturgeon Party Conservative Labour SNP Leader since 11 July 2016 12 September 2015 14 November 2014 Leader's seat Maidenhead Islington North none Last election 317 seats, 42.3% 262 seats, 40.0% 35 seats, 3.0% Seats needed 9 64 N/A   Leader Vince Cable Arlene Foster Gerry Adams Party Liberal Democrat DUP Sinn Féin Leader since 20 July 2017 17 December 2015 13 November 1983 Leader's seat Twickenham none none Last election 12 seats, 7.4% 10 seats, 0.9% 7 seats, 0.8% Seats needed 314 N/A N/A
Incumbent Prime Minister Theresa May Conservative

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Theresa May
Conservative

The next general election in the United Kingdom is scheduled to be held on 5 May 2022 under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. The election may be held at an earlier date in the event of an early election motion being passed by a super-majority of two-thirds in the House of Commons, a vote of no confidence in the government or other exceptional circumstances.

Under the current Brexit timetable, and should no snap election be called, it is scheduled to be the first general election since 1970 to be held with the United Kingdom outside the European Union (since 1993) and its predecessor the European Communities, which the United Kingdom voted to stay part of in 1975, having joined in 1973.

Each parliamentary constituency of the United Kingdom elects one MP to the House of Commons using the "first past the post" system.

In order to vote in the general election, one must be:

Individuals must be registered to vote by midnight twelve working days before polling day. Anyone who qualifies as an anonymous elector has until midnight six 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.

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