Candidates in the 2017 United Kingdom general election information
3,303 candidates stood in the United Kingdom general election of 2017, which was held on 8 June 2017. The deadline for parties and individuals to file candidate nomination papers to the acting returning officer (and the deadline for candidates to withdraw) was 16:00 on 11 May 2017.[1]
The total number of candidates was 3,303; this is fewer than the 3,971 candidates who stood in the 2015 United Kingdom general election or the record 4,133 who stood in the 2010 United Kingdom general election.[2]
2017 United Kingdom general election
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All 650 seats in the House of Commons 326[n 1] seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout
68.8% (2.4%)[3]
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Theresa May
Jeremy Corbyn
Nicola Sturgeon
Party
Conservative
Labour
SNP
Leader since
11 July 2016
12 September 2015
14 November 2014
Leader's seat
Maidenhead
Islington North
Did not stand[n 2]
Last election
330 seats, 36.9%
232 seats, 30.4%
56 seats, 4.7%
Seats won
317*
262
35
Seat change
13
30
21
Popular vote
13,636,684
12,878,460
977,569
Percentage
42.4%
40.0%
3.0%
Swing
5.5%
9.6%
1.7%
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Tim Farron
Arlene Foster
Gerry Adams
Party
Liberal Democrats
DUP
Sinn Féin
Leader since
16 July 2015
17 December 2015
13 November 1983
Leader's seat
Westmorland and Lonsdale
Did not stand[n 3]
Did not stand[n 4]
Last election
8 seats, 7.9%
8 seats, 0.6%
4 seats, 0.6%
Seats won
12
10
7[n 5]
Seat change
4
2
3
Popular vote
2,371,910
292,316
238,915
Percentage
7.4%
0.9%
0.7%
Swing
0.5%
0.3%
0.1%
A map of UK parliamentary constituencies * Figure does not include the Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow, who was included in the Conservative seat total by some media outlets.
Prime Minister before election
Theresa May
Conservative
Appointed Prime Minister
Theresa May
Conservative
^"General Election 2017 timetable", Parliament of the United Kingdom
^Kirk, Ashley; Scott, Patrick (17 May 2017). "General Election 2017: Full results". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
^"General Election 2017: full results and analysis". UK Parliament. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
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