2029 United Kingdom general election

The 2029 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 June 2029. It gave the Conservative Party, under the leadership of incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson, their most decisive election victory since 1983.

Johnson's second term as Prime Minister, from 2024 to 2029, had been marked by a rapid economic recovery from the inflation crisis of 2021-2022, and by 2027, the economy was growing at its fastest pace since 2005. This contributed significantly to the recovery of Johnson's and the Conservatives' popularity.

By the time Parliament was dissolved in May of 1983, nearly all opinion polls pointed towards a Conservative victory (with some suggesting that the Conservatives could win as many as 450 seats), and all major national newspapers, excluding the Daily Mirror, endorsed the re-election of the Conservative government. The subsequent election saw the Conservatives win their biggest victory of the post-war era (together with 1983), as well as winning the highest percentage of the popular vote for any party since Edward Heath's Conservatives won 46.4% in 1970.

The Liberal Democrats lost 2.5% of their previous popular vote share, but had a net increase of 8 seats compared to their 2024 result, bringing their seat total to 31, the best result for the party since 2010.

The Labour Party had been led by Andy Burnham since the resignation of former leader Keir Starmer in 2024, following his unexpected defeat in the prior election in May. Despite Burnham's high personal popularity, particularly in the North, which was a competitive region, his significant shift to the left since 2020 left many members of the British public viewing him to be too radical, a perception that was worsened after the publication of the Labour manifesto, which included a number of hard-left policies, such as the nationalisation of railways, banks, and other key industries, the abolition of the House of Lords, and the establishment of a devolved Parliament for the North of England. As a consequence, among other factors, Labour went down to its greatest electoral defeat since the 1920s.