General Election 2024 - how many candidates are each party standing?
Posted 30 Jun 2024
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Posted 30 Jun 2024
I couldn’t find this published anywhere, so armed with the stats (crowd-sourced data, accessed 2024/06/10 at 22:26 UTC+1), here’s every party standing a double-digit number of candidates.
| Party | Candidates |
|---|---|
| Labour Party / Labour and Co-operative Party | 631 |
| Conservative and Unionist Party | 630 |
| Liberal Democrats | 630 |
| Reform UK | 609 |
| Green Party | 574 |
| Independent | 459 |
| Workers Party of Britain | 152 |
| Social Democratic Party | 122 |
| Scottish National Party (SNP) | 57 |
| Scottish Green Party | 44 |
| Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 40 |
| Patriots Alliance - English Democrats and UKIP / UKIP / English Democrats | 35 |
| Heritage Party | 32 |
| Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales | 32 |
| Yorkshire Party | 27 |
| Rejoin EU | 26 |
| Christian Peoples Alliance | 22 |
| The Official Monster Raving Loony Party | 22 |
| Alba Party | 19 |
| Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland | 18 |
| SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party) | 18 |
| Ulster Unionist Party | 17 |
| Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P. | 16 |
| Party Of Women | 16 |
| Scottish Family Party | 16 |
| Communist Party of Britain | 14 |
| Sinn Féin | 14 |
| Traditional Unionist Voice - TUV | 14 |
| Climate Party | 13 |
| Socialist Labour Party | 12 |
| The Liberal Party | 12 |
| Green Party1 | 11 |
| Aontú | 10 |
| Hampshire Independents | 10 |
1 Northern Ireland
While double-checking my results, I then actually managed to find another table doing the same thing. Oh well.
Our two tables are slightly different because in theirs, regional parties have been combined differently, and the joint-candidates have been combined for Labour & Co-op only.