What constituency am I in and how did my area vote at the last general election? How to find out
Britons head to the polls today to cast their vote in the first general election since 2019.
Rishi Sunak called the general election in May, earlier than many predicted he would, and kicked off six weeks of campaigning from all political parties.
The last general election was on December 12, 2019. Boris Johnson, the then-prime minister, called the election after months of parliamentary deadlock that delayed Brexit.
Here’s how to find out your constituency for the general election 2024 and how the voting went in 2019.
How to find out your constituency for the 2024 general election
You can discover which constituency you're in using the parliament search function.
How to find out how your area voted last time
The Conservatives handsomely won the 2019 general election. The party won 365 seats, 48 more than in 2017, and 43.6 per cent of the vote. The Labour Party won 202 seats and 32.1 per cent of the vote, while the Liberal Democrats claimed only 11 seats.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) won 48 seats and Plaid Cymru retained its four seats in Wales. In Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) won eight seats.
Though the turnout was 67.3 per cent across the UK, a decrease of 1.5 percentage points from 2017 (68.8 per cent), it is still the second-highest since 1997.
Find out the full results of the last general election by constituency here.
