Electoral history of Rishi Sunak
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This is a summary of the electoral history of Rishi Sunak, the Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since October 2022. Sunak previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022, and has been the MP for Richmond (Yorks) since 2015.
Parliamentary elections
2015 general election, Richmond (Yorks)
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rishi Sunak | 27,744 | 51.4 | ―11.4 | |
UKIP | Matthew Cooke | 8,194 | 15.2 | New | |
Labour | Mike Hill | 7,124 | 13.2 | ―2.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Harris | 3,465 | 6.4 | ―12.7 | |
Independent | John Blackie | 3,348 | 6.2 | New | |
Green | Leslie Rowe | 2,313 | 4.3 | +1.5 | |
Independent | Robin Scott | 1,811 | 3.4 | New | |
Majority | 19,550 | 36.2 | ―7.5 | ||
Turnout | 53,999 | 64.7 | ―2.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―13.3 |
2017 general election, Richmond (Yorks)
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rishi Sunak | 36,458 | 63.9 | +12.5 | |
Labour | Dan Perry | 13,350 | 23.4 | +10.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tobie Abel | 3,360 | 5.9 | −0.5 | |
Yorkshire | Chris Pearson | 2,106 | 3.7 | New | |
Green | Fiona Yorke | 1,739 | 3.1 | −1.2 | |
Majority | 23,108 | 40.5 | +4.3 | ||
Turnout | 57,013 | 70.5 | +5.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.2 |
2019 general election, Richmond (Yorks)
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rishi Sunak | 36,693 | 63.6 | −0.3 | |
Labour | Thomas Kirkwood | 9,483 | 16.4 | −7.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Philip Knowles | 6,989 | 12.1 | +6.2 | |
Green | John Yorke | 2,500 | 4.3 | +1.2 | |
Yorkshire | Laurence Waterhouse | 1,077 | 1.9 | −1.8 | |
Independent | Nick Jardine | 961 | 1.7 | New | |
Majority | 27,210 | 47.2 | +6.7 | ||
Turnout | 57,703 | 69.9 | −0.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.3 |
July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
Candidate | MPs' 1st ballot: 13 July 2022[7][8] |
MPs' 2nd ballot: 14 July 2022[9][8] |
MPs' 3rd ballot: 18 July 2022[10][8] |
MPs' 4th ballot: 19 July 2022[11][8] |
MPs' 5th ballot: 20 July 2022[12][8] |
Members' vote 22 July to 2 September 2022[13][14][15] | |||||||||||
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Votes | % | Votes | ± | % | Votes | ± | % | Votes | ± | % | Votes | ± | % | Votes | % | % Votes cast | |
Liz Truss | 50 | 14.0 | 64 | +14 | 17.9 | 71 | +7 | 19.8 | 86 | +15 | 24.1 | 113 | +27 | 31.6 | 81,326 | 47.2 | 57.4 |
Rishi Sunak | 88 | 24.6 | 101 | +13 | 28.2 | 115 | +14 | 32.1 | 118 | +3 | 33.1 | 137 | +19 | 38.3 | 60,399 | 35.0 | 42.6 |
Penny Mordaunt | 67 | 18.7 | 83 | +16 | 23.2 | 82 | −1 | 22.9 | 92 | +10 | 25.8 | 105 | +13 | 29.3 | Eliminated | ||
Kemi Badenoch | 40 | 11.2 | 49 | +9 | 13.7 | 58 | +9 | 16.2 | 59 | +1 | 16.5 | Eliminated | |||||
Tom Tugendhat | 37 | 10.3 | 32 | −5 | 8.9 | 31 | −1 | 8.7 | Eliminated | ||||||||
Suella Braverman | 32 | 8.9 | 27 | −5 | 7.5 | Eliminated | |||||||||||
Nadhim Zahawi | 25 | 7.0 | Eliminated | ||||||||||||||
Jeremy Hunt | 18 | 5.0 | Eliminated | ||||||||||||||
Votes cast[a] | 357 | 99.7 | 356 | −1 | 99.4 | 357 | +1 | 99.7 | 355 | −2 | 99.4 | 355 | 0 | 99.2 | 141,725 | 82.2 | 100 |
Spoilt ballots | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | +1 | 0.3 | 2 | +1 | 0.6 | 654 | 0.4 | |
Abstentions | 1 | 0.3 | 2 | +1 | 0.6 | 1 | −1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0 | 0.3 | 1 | 0 | 0.3 | 30,058 | 17.4 | |
Registered voters | 358 | 100.0 | 358 | 0 | 100.0 | 358 | 0 | 100.0 | 357 | −1 | 100.0 | 358 | +1 | 100.0 | 172,437 | 100.0 |
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October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
Nominated and elected unopposed by 197 Conservative MPs
- ^ Due to rounding errors the sum of percentages may deviate.
- ^ Initially endorsed Jeremy Hunt, then switched to Sunak after Hunt ruled himself out of the leadership contest.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Initially endorsed Boris Johnson, then switched to Sunak after Johnson ruled himself out of the leadership contest.
- ^ Initially endorsed Penny Mordaunt, then switched to Sunak.
Notes
References
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Richmond (Yorks)". BBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ "Statement of Persons Nominated" (PDF). Hambleton District Council. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
- ^ "BBC Election Site". BBC. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- ^ "Electoral and elections documents: Statement of Persons Nominated Richmond (Yorks) & Notice of Poll". Hambleton District Council. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- ^ Minting, Stuart (13 December 2019). "Rishi Sunak increases Conservative majority in Richmond". Darlington and Stockton Times. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ Stone, Jon (13 July 2022). "Tory leadership vote: The first round results in full". The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ^ a b c d e Clarke, Seán; Leach, Anna (14 July 2022). "Tory leadership election: full results". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022.
- ^ Stone, Jon (14 July 2022). "Tory leadership vote: The second round results in full". The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ^ "The third Tory leadership ballot – as it happened | The Spectator". The Spectator. 18 July 2022. Archived from the original on 27 August 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ Stone, Jon (19 July 2022). "Tory leadership vote: The fourth round results in full". The Independent. Archived from the original on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- ^ Stone, Jon (20 July 2022). "Tory leadership vote: The fifth round results in full". The Independent. Archived from the original on 20 July 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ Maldment, Jack (5 September 2022). "Tory leadership result: New prime minister to be announced imminently - watch live". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
- ^ Piper, Elizabeth; Maclellan, Kylie (5 September 2022). "Liz Truss named as Britain's next prime minister". Reuters. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
- ^ "Liz Truss wins leadership race". BBC. 5 September 2022. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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- ^ a b c d e f g "Who's backing whom?". The Spectator. 22 October 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
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