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Monthly Archives: July 2024
The 2024 General Election in numbers
The election Number of seats (constituencies) contested: 650 Number of candidates: 4,515. Considerable higher than 3,327 in 2019. Average number of candidates per constituency: 6.9. In Northern Ireland 7.6; Scotland 7.4; Wales, 7.3; England 6.9. Number of constituencies with 10 … Continue reading