Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that the next UK general election will take place on 4 July.
Mr. Sunak’s announcement ends months of speculation about the election date. The general election will be held to elect Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons.
The UK is divided into 650 constituencies, each electing one MP to represent local residents. Most candidates represent political parties, but some stand as independents. In a general election, each person has one vote.
On election day, registered voters in each constituency vote for their preferred candidate at local polling stations, although some people vote by post in advance.
Under the “first past the post” system, the candidate who receives the most votes becomes the MP for that area. This election will be conducted on newly redrawn constituency boundaries, which reflect population changes and aim to equalize voter numbers across areas.
Use our tool to find out which constituency you belong to and to see an estimate of what the result might have been in the last general election, held in 2019, had these new boundaries been in place.