2024 United Kingdom general election in Wales

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All32 Welsh seats to theHouse of Commons
Turnout	56.0%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

The2024 general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024. Thirty-two seats were up for election inWales 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.

On 22 May 2024, Prime MinisterRishi Sunak announced 4 July 2024 as the election date.^[1]

TheParliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, as amended by theParliamentary Constituencies Act 2020, mandated the number of seats in Wales be reduced from 40 to 32 to more accurately reflect its share of registered voters, including one coterminous with the Isle of Anglesey. The Boundary Commission for Wales was responsible for drawing up proposals for the new constituency boundaries, but it was required to abide by this total.

The2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies began in 2020 and concluded in 2023. Initial proposals were published in September 2021.^[2] The revised proposals were published on 19 October 2022 followed by a four-week consultation period.^[3] On 28 June 2023, the Boundary Commission for Wales published its final recommendations for the new Welsh constituencies.^[4] These changes were approved at a meeting of thePrivy Council on 15 November.^[5] and came into force on 29 November.^[6]

Affiliation[18]		Candidates	Seats					Aggregate votes
			Total	Gains	Losses	Net	Of all (%)	Total	Of all (%)	Differ­ence
	Labour	32	27	8	0	9	84.4	487,636	37.0	3.9
	Conservative	32	0	0	12	12	0.0	240,003	18.2	17.9
	Reform	31	0	0	0		0.0	223,018	16.9	11.5
	Plaid Cymru	32	4	2	0	2	12.5	194,811	14.8	4.9
	Liberal Democrats	32	1	1	0	1	3.1	85,911	6.5	0.5
	Green	32	0	0	0		0.0	61,662	4.7	3.7
	Independent	17	0	0	0		0.0	17,593	1.3	0.9
	Workers Party	4	0	Did not stand in 2019			0.0	1,545	0.1	—N/a
	Abolish	3	0	Did not stand in 2019			0.0	1,521	0.1	—N/a
	Propel	1	0	Did not stand in 2019			0.0	1,041	0.1	—N/a
	Heritage	6	0	Did not stand in 2019			0.0	926	0.1	—N/a
	UKIP	1	0	Did not stand in 2019			0.0	600	0.0	—N/a
	Women's Equality	2	0	Did not stand in 2019			0.0	536	0.0	—N/a
	TUSC	2	0	Did not stand in 2019			0.0	532	0.0	—N/a
	Communist	1	0	Did not stand in 2019			0.0	521	0.0	—N/a
	Libertarian	1	0	Did not stand in 2019			0.0	439	0.0	—N/a
	Socialist Labour	1	0	Did not stand in 2019			0.0	424	0.0	—N/a
	Monster Raving Loony	2	0	0	0		0.0	393	0.0
	True & Fair	1	0	Did not stand in 2019			0.0	255	0.0	—N/a
	Climate	1	0	Did not stand in 2019			0.0	104	0.0	—N/a
	Total	235	32	—N/a				1,319,471	56.0	10.6

Candidates inbold won their respective constituency election.Bold meant the candidate was elected.

The dates for these opinion polls range from the2019 general election on 12 December to the present day.

TheLabour Party remained the largest party in Wales, winning 27 of the 32 seats. In addition to defending all of their seats in the south including aroundCardiff andSwansea, Labour reversed many of the Conservative gains in2019, gaining seats such asBangor Aberconwy,Clwyd East,Clwyd North,Monmouthshire andWrexham. Labour also won inMontgomeryshire and Glyndŵr, which covers Montgomeryshire, the only area in Wales which had, until 2024, never elected a Labour MP.^[25] Of the Labour MPs elected, 2 of them are also members of theCo-operative Party. They are designated asLabour-Co-op, but generally just counted in Labour's total.

Plaid Cymru won four seats, the same as in 2019, however given boundary changes and the reduction in seats this should be counted as two gains. Plaid Cymru defendedDwyfor Meirionnydd andCeredigion Preseli with significant majorities, gaining the new seat ofCaerfyrddin which had been nominally Conservative in 2019, and gainedYnys Môn from the Conservatives. This was the first time Plaid Cymru had won in Ynys Môn since 2001; it was the most marginal seat in Wales with a majority of 637 votes between Plaid and Conservatives, with Labour in close third place. By the share of the vote (14.8 per cent), Plaid Cymru achieved their best ever result in UK general election.^[26]

TheLiberal Democrats gained one seat in Wales,Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe. Outside of briefly holding the predecessor seat following the2019 Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, the Liberal Democrats have not had a seat in Wales since losingCeredigion in2017.^[27]

TheConservative Party lost every seat in Wales, having won fourteen seats in 2019, the first time since2001 that Wales had no Conservative MPs. This was despite the Conservatives taking 18.2% of the overall vote and outpolling both Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats in terms of votes.^[28]

Reform UK was the third largest party in terms of votes with 16.9%, nearly as many votes as the Conservatives and more than both Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats; it was also a higher vote share than in England.^[29] Reform was the runner-up in thirteen constituencies, coming closest to winning inLlanelli.^[30] TheGreen Party was runner-up in one constituency,Cardiff South and Penarth.^[31]

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