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 was the MP for Richmond (Yorks) from 2015 to 2024. Following boundary changes, Sunak's seat was abolished, and was reformed as Richmond and Northallerton; first contested at the 2024 general election with Sunak as the Conservative candidate. Sunak is going to lose his seat and be ousted out of parliament for being a little weasel

Parliamentary elections

2015 general election, Richmond (Yorks)

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General election 2015: Richmond (Yorks)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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)

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General election 2017: Richmond (Yorks)[3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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)

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General election 2019: Richmond (Yorks)[5][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

2024 general election, Richmond (Yorks)

General election 2024: Richmond and Northallerton[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Jason Barnett
Count Binface Party Count Binface
Liberal Democrats Daniel Callaghan
Independent Angie Campion
Workers Party Louise Dickens
Green Kevin Foster
Yorkshire Rio Goldhammer
Independent Niko Omilana
Independent Brian Richmond
Monster Raving Loony Sir Archibald Stanton
Conservative Rishi Sunak
Reform UK Lee Taylor
Labour Tom Wilson
Majority
Turnout
win (new seat)

July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election

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Candidate MPs' 1st ballot:
13 July 2022[8][9] 		MPs' 2nd ballot:
14 July 2022[10][9] 		MPs' 3rd ballot:
18 July 2022[11][9] 		MPs' 4th ballot:
19 July 2022[12][9] 		MPs' 5th ballot:
20 July 2022[13][9] 		Members' vote
22 July to 2 September 2022[14][15][16]
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

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Sunak was nominated and elected unopposed by 197 Conservative MPs

Endorsements of Conservative MPs   Rishi Sunak   Boris Johnson   Penny Mordaunt   No endorsement   No Conservative MP
No. Rishi Sunak (197)
1 Crispin Blunt[b][17]
2 Julie Marson[17]
3 Richard Holden[17]
4 Angela Richardson[17]
5 Steve Double[17]
6 Kevin Hollinrake[17]
7 Jo Gideon[17]
8 John Glen[17]
9 Simon Hart[17]
10 Andrew Bowie[17]
11 Anthony Mangnall[17]
12 Dominic Raab[17]
13 John Stevenson[17]
14 Gary Streeter[17]
15 Andrew Murrison[17]
16 Craig Williams[17]
17 Paul Maynard[17]
18 Simon Jupp[17]
19 James Cartlidge[17]
20 Bim Afolami[17]
21 Nick Gibb[17]
22 Maggie Throup[17]
23 Alex Chalk[17]
24 Fay Jones[17]
25 Edward Timpson[17]
26 Laura Trott[17]
27 Huw Merriman[17]
28 Laura Farris[17]
29 Simon Fell[17]
30 Helen Whately[17]
31 Jonathan Djanogly[17]
32 Mark Garnier[17]
33 Siobhan Baillie[17]
34 Rehman Chishti[17]
35 Damian Hinds[17]
36 James Morris[17]
37 Victoria Prentis[17]
38 Guy Opperman[17]
39 Robert Jenrick[17]
40 Robert Goodwill[17]
41 Richard Graham[17]
42 Mel Stride[17]
43 Robin Walker[17]
44 Claire Coutinho[17]
45 Robert Syms[17]
46 Simon Hoare[17]
47 Gavin Williamson[17]
48 Liam Fox[17]
49 Simon Baynes[17]
50 Bob Neill[18]
51 Anthony Browne[17]
52 Gareth Davies[19]
53 James Gray[17]
54 Steve Brine[17]
55 David TC Davies[17]
56 Mark Harper[17]
57 Robert Halfon[17]
58 George Eustice[17]
59 Ruth Edwards[17]
60 Mike Wood[17]
61 Stephen Hammond[17]
62 Greg Clark[17]
63 Andrew Jones[17]
64 John Baron[17]
65 Julian Sturdy[17]
66 Nigel Mills[17]
67 James Daly[17]
68 Julian Smith[17]
69 Philip Dunne[17]
70 Mark Logan[17]
71 David Rutley[17]
72 Andrew Bridgen[17]
73 James Wild[17]
74 Gillian Keegan[17]
75 Chris Philp[17]
76 Sajid Javid[17]
77 Lucy Frazer[17]
78 Jonathan Lord[17]
79 Johnny Mercer[17]
80 Duncan Baker[17]
81 Steve Barclay[17]
82 Andrew Percy[17]
83 Andrew Mitchell[17]
84 Stephen Crabb[17]
85 Sally-Ann Hart[17]
86 Rebecca Pow[17]
87 Jeremy Quin[17]
88 Jamie Wallis[17]
89 Oliver Dowden[17]
90 Matt Hancock[17]
91 Tom Tugendhat[17]
92 Alan Mak[17]
93 Tobias Ellwood[17]
94 Mark Menzies[17]
95 Miriam Cates[17]
96 Richard Bacon[17]
97 Martin Vickers[17]
98 Caroline Nokes[17]
99 Selaine Saxby[17]
Threshold of 100 MP nominations required to stand
100 Robert Largan[17]
101 David Mundell[17]
102 David Simmonds[20]
103 John Howell[17]
104 Philip Davies[17]
105 Iain Stewart[17]
106 Aaron Bell[17]
107 Paul Howell[17]
108 Helen Grant[17]
109 Chris Grayling[18]
110 Peter Bottomley[17]
111 Flick Drummond[17]
112 Fiona Bruce[19]
113 David Johnston[17]
114 Desmond Swayne[17]
115 Oliver Heald[17]
116 Andrew Selous[17]
117 Greg Hands[17]
118 Paul Beresford[18]
119 Graham Stuart[17]
120 David Davis[17]
121 Kemi Badenoch[17]
122 Alun Cairns[17]
123 Tom Hunt[17]
124 Tim Loughton[17]
125 Paul Holmes[17]
126 Greg Knight[17]
127 Daniel Poulter[19]
128 Justin Tomlinson[17]
129 Andrew Lewer[17]
130 Chris Loder[17]
131 Steve Baker[17]
132 Mike Freer[18]
133 Gagan Mohindra[18]
134 Geoffrey Cox[17]
135 Jesse Norman[17]
136 Grant Shapps[17]
137 Mark Pawsey[17]
138 Theresa Villiers[17]
139 Chloe Smith[17]
140 Matt Vickers[18]
141 Stuart Andrew[17]
142 Peter Gibson[17]
143 Will Quince[17]
144 Michelle Donelan[18]
145 Neil O'Brien[17]
146 Suella Braverman[17]
147 Nus Ghani[17]
148 Michael Tomlinson[20]
149 James Heappey[20]
150 Kevin Foster[17]
151 Jerome Mayhew[17]
152 Felicity Buchan
153 Nadhim Zahawi[c][17]
154 Chris Clarkson[19][c]
155 David Morris[20][c]
156 Anna Firth[17]
157 Shailesh Vara[20][c]
158 Jeremy Hunt[19]
159 Jonathan Gullis[20][c]
160 Edward Argar[19]
161 Pauline Latham[19]
162 James Duddridge[20][c]
163 Alex Burghart[18]
164 Leo Docherty[20][c]
165 James Cleverly[20][c]
166 Robert Courts[18]
167 Maria Caulfield[18]
168 Scott Mann[18]
169 Priti Patel[20][c]
170 Michael Gove[18]
171 Louie French[18]
172 Danny Kruger[18]
173 Andrew Stephenson[20][c]
174 John Whittingdale[20][c]
175 Mark Spencer[18]
176 Victoria Atkins[18]
177 Robert Buckland[18]
178 Tom Randall[18]
Support of more than half of Conservative MPs
179 Peter Aldous[18]
180 Simon Clarke[20][c]
181 Gordon Henderson[c][18]
182 Mims Davies[18]
183 Andrew Griffith[18]
184 Brandon Lewis[18]
185 Jason McCartney[18]
186 Lucy Allan[c][20]
187 Richard Fuller[18]
188 Virginia Crosbie[20]
189 Jeremy Wright[20]
190 Royston Smith[20]
191 Chris Heaton-Harris[c][20]
192 Dean Russell[18]
193 Iain Duncan Smith[18]
194 Amanda Milling[18]
195 Tom Pursglove[c]
196 George Freeman[d][18]
197 Kate Kniveton[18]

2024 United Kingdom general election

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Opinion polls conducted for the 2024 United Kingdom general election since the 2019 general election with a local regressions (LOESS) trend line for each party.
Opinion polls conducted for the 2024 United Kingdom general election since it was called on 22 May with a local regression (LOESS) trend line for each party.

Notes

  1. ^ Due to rounding errors the sum of percentages may deviate.
  2. ^ Initially endorsed Jeremy Hunt, then switched to Sunak after Hunt ruled himself out of the leadership contest.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Initially endorsed Penny Mordaunt, then switched to Sunak.

References

  1. ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Richmond (Yorks)". BBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Statement of Persons Nominated" (PDF). Hambleton District Council. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  4. ^ "BBC Election Site". BBC. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  5. ^ "Electoral and elections documents: Statement of Persons Nominated Richmond (Yorks) & Notice of Poll". Hambleton District Council. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  6. ^ Minting, Stuart (13 December 2019). "Rishi Sunak increases Conservative majority in Richmond". Darlington and Stockton Times. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Statement of persons nominated for Richmond and Northallerton Constituency" (PDF). North Yorkshire Council. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
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  10. ^ 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.
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  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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.
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