Electoral history of Rishi Sunak

Official portrait of Rishi Sunak, 2022

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.

Parliamentary elections

2015 general election, Richmond (Yorks)

This section is transcluded from Richmond (Yorks) (UK Parliament constituency). (edit | history)

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 [rounding 1]	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

October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election

Nominated and elected unopposed by 197 Conservative MPs

Crispin Blunt [lower-alpha 1] [17]

Julie Marson [17]

Richard Holden [17]

Angela Richardson [17]

Steve Double [17]

Kevin Hollinrake [17]

Jo Gideon [17]

John Glen [17]

Simon Hart [17]

Andrew Bowie [17]

Anthony Mangnall [17]

Dominic Raab [17]

John Stevenson [17]

Gary Streeter [17]

Andrew Murrison [17]

Craig Williams [17]

Paul Maynard [17]

Simon Jupp [17]

James Cartlidge [17]

Bim Afolami [17]

Nick Gibb [17]

Maggie Throup [17]

Alex Chalk [17]

Fay Jones [17]

Edward Timpson [17]

Laura Trott [17]

Huw Merriman [17]

Laura Farris [17]

Simon Fell [17]

Helen Whately [17]

Jonathan Djanogly [17]

Mark Garnier [17]

Siobhan Baillie [17]

Rehman Chishti [17]

Damian Hinds [17]

James Morris [17]

Victoria Prentis [17]

Guy Opperman [17]

Robert Jenrick [17]

Robert Goodwill [17]

Richard Graham [17]

Mel Stride [17]

Robin Walker [17]

Claire Coutinho [17]

Robert Syms [17]

Simon Hoare [17]

Gavin Williamson [17]

Liam Fox [17]

Simon Baynes [17]

Bob Neill [18]

Anthony Browne [17]

Gareth Davies [19]

James Gray [17]

Steve Brine [17]

David TC Davies [17]

Mark Harper [17]

Robert Halfon [17]

George Eustice [17]

Ruth Edwards [17]

Mike Wood [17]

Stephen Hammond [17]

Greg Clark [17]

Andrew Jones [17]

John Baron [17]

Julian Sturdy [17]

Nigel Mills [17]

James Daly [17]

Julian Smith [17]

Philip Dunne [17]

Mark Logan [17]

David Rutley [17]

Andrew Bridgen [17]

James Wild [17]

Gillian Keegan [17]

Chris Philp [17]

Sajid Javid [17]

Lucy Frazer [17]

Jonathan Lord [17]

Johnny Mercer [17]

Duncan Baker [17]

Steve Barclay [17]

Andrew Percy [17]

Andrew Mitchell [17]

Stephen Crabb [17]

Sally-Ann Hart [17]

Rebecca Pow [17]

Jeremy Quin [17]

Jamie Wallis [17]

Oliver Dowden [17]

Matt Hancock [17]

Tom Tugendhat [17]

Alan Mak [17]

Tobias Ellwood [17]

Mark Menzies [17]

Miriam Cates [17]

Richard Bacon [17]

Martin Vickers [17]

Caroline Nokes [17]

Selaine Saxby [17]

Robert Largan [17]

David Mundell [17]

David Simmonds [20]

John Howell [17]

Philip Davies [17]

Iain Stewart [17]

Aaron Bell [17]

Paul Howell [17]

Helen Grant [17]

Chris Grayling [18]

Peter Bottomley [17]

Flick Drummond [17]

Fiona Bruce [19]

David Johnston [17]

Desmond Swayne [17]

Oliver Heald [17]

Andrew Selous [17]

Greg Hands [17]

Paul Beresford [18]

Graham Stuart [17]

David Davis [17]

Kemi Badenoch [17]

Alun Cairns [17]

Tom Hunt [17]

Tim Loughton [17]

Paul Holmes [17]

Greg Knight [17]

Daniel Poulter [19]

Justin Tomlinson [17]

Andrew Lewer [17]

Chris Loder [17]

Steve Baker [17]

Mike Freer [18]

Gagan Mohindra [18]

Geoffrey Cox [17]

Jesse Norman [17]

Grant Shapps [17]

Mark Pawsey [17]

Theresa Villiers [17]

Chloe Smith [17]

Matt Vickers [18]

Stuart Andrew [17]

Peter Gibson [17]

Will Quince [17]

Michelle Donelan [18]

Neil O'Brien [17]

Suella Braverman [17]

Nus Ghani [17]

Michael Tomlinson [20]

James Heappey [20]

Kevin Foster [17]

Jerome Mayhew [17]

Felicity Buchan

Nadhim Zahawi [lower-alpha 2] [17]

Chris Clarkson [19] [lower-alpha 2]

David Morris [20] [lower-alpha 2]

Anna Firth [17]

Shailesh Vara [20] [lower-alpha 2]

Jeremy Hunt [19]

Jonathan Gullis [20] [lower-alpha 2]

Edward Argar [19]

Pauline Latham [19]

James Duddridge [20] [lower-alpha 2]

Alex Burghart [18]

Leo Docherty [20] [lower-alpha 2]

James Cleverly [20] [lower-alpha 2]

Robert Courts [18]

Maria Caulfield [18]

Scott Mann [18]

Priti Patel [20] [lower-alpha 2]

Michael Gove [18]

Louie French [18]

Danny Kruger [18]

Andrew Stephenson [20] [lower-alpha 2]

John Whittingdale [20] [lower-alpha 2]

Mark Spencer [18]

Victoria Atkins [18]

Robert Buckland [18]

Tom Randall [18]

Peter Aldous [18]

Simon Clarke [20] [lower-alpha 2]

Gordon Henderson [lower-alpha 2] [18]

Mims Davies [18]

Andrew Griffith [18]

Brandon Lewis [18]

Jason McCartney [18]

Lucy Allan [lower-alpha 2] [20]

Richard Fuller [18]

Virginia Crosbie [20]

Jeremy Wright [20]

Royston Smith [20]

Chris Heaton-Harris [lower-alpha 2] [20]

Dean Russell [18]

Iain Duncan Smith [18]

Amanda Milling [18]

Tom Pursglove [lower-alpha 2]

George Freeman [lower-alpha 3] [18]

Kate Kniveton [18]

1. Initially endorsed Jeremy Hunt, then switched to Sunak after Hunt ruled himself out of the leadership contest.
2. Initially endorsed Boris Johnson, then switched to Sunak after Johnson ruled himself out of the leadership contest.
3. Initially endorsed Penny Mordaunt, then switched to Sunak.

Notes

1. Due to rounding errors the sum of percentages may deviate.

References

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