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This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) who held seats at the end of the 58th Parliament of the United Kingdom and did not stand for re-election in the 2024 general election. A total of 132 Members of Parliament did not stand for re-election, including a record number of Conservative MPs. This includes MPs who were deselected by their party who subsequently chose not to seek nomination either in a different constituency, or with a different party.
Four MPs — Nadine Dorries, [1] [2] Nigel Adams, [3] [4] Chris Skidmore [5] (all Conservative) and Chris Pincher [6] (independent, elected as Conservative) — announced their intention not to stand again, but later resigned from Parliament before the election, and are not included in the figures below. Four further MPs - Conservatives Chris Clarkson, Kieran Mullan and Douglas Ross and Independent Julian Knight [lower-alpha 1] - initially announced their intention to stand down, before changing their minds and standing in different constituencies. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] Conservative MP Andy Carter announced in 2023 that he did not intend to recontest his seat of Warrington South, [15] but in the end was once again adopted as the Conservative candidate. [16]
There were no vacant seats at the dissolution of the 2019-2024 Parliament. The deadline for nominations of candidates was at 16:00 BST on 7 June 2024. [17]
Party | MPs standing down | ||
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Elected [lower-alpha 2] | Final | ||
Conservative | 80 | 75 | |
Labour | 35 | 33 | |
Independent [lower-alpha 3] | 0 | 10 | |
SNP | 10 | 9 | |
Sinn Féin | 3 | 3 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2 | 1 | |
Green | 1 | 1 | |
DUP | 1 | 0 | |
Total | 132 |
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