Talk:Candidates in the 2024 United Kingdom general election

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Section sizes

Section size for Candidates in the 2024 United Kingdom general election (32 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	3,022	3,022
Parties	19,142	19,142
Candidate selection process	996	66,617
Conservative	21,070	21,070
Labour	16,553	16,553
Liberal Democrats	1,542	1,542
Scottish National Party	8,887	8,887
Green Party of England and Wales	2,709	2,709
Scottish Greens	1,021	1,021
Plaid Cymru	912	912
Reform UK	5,389	5,389
Workers Party of Britain	1,920	1,920
Sinn Fein	708	708
Democratic Unionist Party	594	594
Ulster Unionist Party	472	472
Other parties	2,291	2,291
Independents	1,553	1,553
Candidates by constituency	111	111
Candidates by demographic	33	752
Gender	719	719
Candidate changes	24	57,572
MPs not standing for re-election	4,225	4,225
MPs deselected or seeking a new constituency	12,860	12,860
MPs standing under a different political affiliation from 2019	5,188	5,188
Deselected and disowned candidates	23,103	23,103
Withdrawn candidates	12,172	12,172
Former MPs seeking to return to Parliament	16,039	16,039
MPs changing constituencies	24,639	24,639
Incumbent MPs standing against each other	6,951	6,951
Election polling	90	90
Notes	49	49
References	162	162
Total	195,146	195,146

deselected labour mps[edit]

should we include deselected labour mps (e.g. sam tarry) in the list of mps who are standing down? most don't seem likely to contest their seats as independents either SteveTempleton (talk) 06:46, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn candidates[edit]

Do we include in the section for candidates withdrawing those who do so when their party endorses an independent candidate? The WPB has done this in Bethnal Green and Stepney and Chingford and Woodford Green and possibly elsewhere. References are in the Endorsements page Jontel (talk) 22:23, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Party number discrepancies[edit]

As well as the below, the numbers look wrong for several other parties. The figures look too low for the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and for the SDLP. Bondegezou (talk) 21:47, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have fixed all the numbers now, from a source that falls under the same license as Wikipedia. I think I manually checked the Northern Irish ones yesterday. Eastwood Park and strabane (talk) 18:32, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Workers Party[edit]

It seems that the number of candidates for the Workers Party of Britain may be lower than announced. In Paisley and Renfrewshire North, the party announced a candidate, but there is no Workers Party candidate in the actual vote. Eastwood Park and strabane (talk) 19:09, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This page shows 153 - basically the same as the 152 on here. https://workerspartybritain.org/elections-2024/

It doesn't include the candidate that was removed from the Paisley and Renfrewshire North seat. That number is likely accurate. Eastwood Park and strabane (talk) 19:26, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Official Monster Raving Loony Party[edit]

The Official Monster Raving Loony Party have their candidates listed here - https://www.loonyparty.com/ One candidate is listed for East Kilbride. The constituency is actually called East Kilbride and Strathaven. The named candidate is not actually on the ballot paper. Eastwood Park and strabane (talk) 19:44, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Page that contains all the numbers[edit]

There is a webpage here https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2024/06/08/2024-uk-general-election-candidate-summary/ that contains all the numbers for each party. I don't know if it's a good idea to just copy all the data from there though. Eastwood Park and strabane (talk) 20:06, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]