The United Kingdom held a general election on 4 July 2024 to elect Members of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons.
The Labour Party won the election after it secured a majority with 412 out of 650 seats in the House of Commons.
Leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer became the new Prime Minister after the King invited him to form a Government.
Outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of the Conservative party has stepped down as party leader but will remain until the formal arrangements for selecting a successor are in place.
Following the election, the three largest political parties in the UK by parliamentary seats are Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
The electoral system in the UK is first-past-the-post.
The UK has a population of 67.9 million and there are around 47 million registered to vote. Provisional results show voter turnout was 60% in the 2024 election, compared with 67.3% in 2019.