2024 United Kingdom general election in the West Midlands
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The 2024 United Kingdom general election is scheduled to be held on Thursday, 4 July 2024. 57 seats will be up for election in the West Midlands.
Electoral system
The election will be fought under the boundaries created by the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies.[2]
Constituencies
The West Midlands will elect 57 MPs, which is 2 less than the 59 elected in 2019 general election.[3]
Candidates
Candidates in bold were MPs at dissolution and represented a constituency in that parliamentary term which is succeeded at least partially by the constituency they're standing for election in at this election, in some cases not for the party they were aligned with when they were originally elected, and also includes those elected at by-elections in the preceding parliament. Italics denotes incumbent MPs not contesting the election.
Notes
- ^ Davey served as Acting Leader from 13 December 2019 to 27 August 2020 alongside the Party Presidents Baroness Sal Brinton and Mark Pack, following Jo Swinson's election defeat in the 2019 general election. Davey was elected Leader in August 2020.[1]
- ^ a b c Elected in by-election
- ^ MP for Wakefield (2005 to 2019)
- ^ Baynes is the incumbent MP for Clwyd South in Wales, and is standing in North Shropshire in England.
- ^ Incumbent MP for South Staffordshire, contesting Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge
- ^ Incumbent MP for Walsall North, contesting Tamworth
- ^ Incumbent MP for Walsall North, contesting Tamworth
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