May 2023 general election

May 2023 general election

12–13 May 2023
All 50 seats in the House of Commons 26 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	414 ( 15)
First party Second party Third party   Leader TheBritishUnion RebaAstor Dxavus Party Conservative & Unionist Labour Four Star Leader since 16 April 2023 17 April 2023 1 May 2023 Leader's seat Strathclyde Lothian None Last election 29 seats, 58.2% 16 seats, 31.7% Did not participate Seats won 21 15 5 Seat change 8 1 5 Popular vote 166 120 44 Percentage 41.50% 30.0% 11.1% Swing 16.7 pp 1.7 pp 11.1 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader AdaptedFrost BlazeFuse OwenKCSmith Party Voice Liberal Democrats UK First Leader since 2 May 2023 17 March 2023 14 March 2023 Leader's seat None None Grampian Last election Did not participate Did not participate 5 seats, 13.1% Seats won 5 3 1 Seat change 5 3 4 Popular vote 36 25 9 Percentage 9.0% 6.25% 2.3% Swing 9 pp 6.25 pp 10.8pp
Composition of the House of Commons after the election
Prime Minister before election TheBritishUnion Conservative & Unionist Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister after negotiations TheBritishUnion (Conservative) AdaptedFrost (Voice)

The May 2023 general election was held on 12 May 2023. Voting opened at 21:00 BST, and closed 24 hours later on 13 May 2023.

Opinion polling

Dates conducted	Pollster	Sample size	Con	Lab	UK First	Lib Dems	Four Star	Voice	Communist	Lead	Result
6–8 May	Daily Telegraph & ITV	122	17	13	2	0	5	4	10	5	Hung
6–8 May	Crystal Polls	58	17	21	1	0	4	7		4	Hung
6–8 May	Daily Telegraph & AT	137	20	16	2	2	4	6		4	Hung

Dates conducted	Pollster	Sample size	TheBritishUnion	RebaAstor	OwenKCSmith	BlazeFuse	Dxavus	AdaptedFrost	AndreHodge	None of these	Lead
12–13 May	Daily Telegraph & ITV	122	34.4%	28.7%	6.6%	2.5%	14.8%	9.8%	19.8%	7.4%	5.7

Communist Party

The Communist Party of Britain, led by AndreHodge, was deregistered by order of The King, Robert, on 8 May 2023.

Elected MPs

Constituency		Member of Parliament
Bedfordshire
Belfast
Birmingham
Cambridgeshire
Cardiff
Cheshire
Colchester
Croydon
Devon & Cornwall
Dorset
Dyfed-Powys
Finchley
Glasgow
Gloucestershire
Grampian
Hertfordshire
Humberside
Islington
Kent
Lancashire
Leeds
Leicester
Lincoln
Lothian
Merseyside
Newham
Norfolk
North Yorkshire
Northumbria
Nottingham
Portsmouth
Sheffield
Snowdonia
Somerset
Southampton & Wight
Southend-on-Sea
Southwark
Staffordshire
Strathclyde
Surrey
Sussex
Tayside & Fife
Thames Valley
Trafford
Tyneside
Warwickshire
West Mercia
West Ulster
Wigan
Wolverhampton

Results

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21	15	5	5	3	1
Conservative	Labour	Four Star	Voice	LDM	UKF

For further results, see List of MPs elected in the May 2023 general election.

After all 50 constituencies had been declared, the results were:

Party		Leader	MPs		Votes
				Of total		Of total
Conservative Party		TheBritishUnion	21	42%	166	41.5%
Labour Party		RebaAstor	15	30%	120	30.0%
Four Star Party		Dxavus	5	10%	44	11.1%
Voice Party		AdaptedFrost	5	10%	36	9.0%
Liberal Democrats		BlazeFuse	3	6%	25	6.25%
UK First		OwenKCSmith	1	2%	9	2.25%