The 2024 UK General Election in Wales

Larner, Jac M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5171-8851 and Wyn Jones, Richard 2025. The 2024 UK General Election in Wales. Parliamentary Affairs 78 (Supple) , pp. 148-161. 10.1093/pa/gsaf030

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Abstract

That Labour emerged victorious from the 2024 UK General Election in Wales must count among the least surprising political outcomes imaginable. It has, after all, been the largest party in terms of both votes and seats after every general election in Wales since 1922; a record of one-party domination at the sub-state level that is without parallel in the democratic world. Given that, overall, the 2024 General Election delivered the worst result in the long history of the incumbent Conservatives—and, concomitantly, one of Labour’s best ever—anything other than a decisive victory for Labour in Wales was surely unthinkable. In the event, Labour duly won 84% of Welsh seats in the House of Commons (twenty-seven out of a total of thirty-two) with the Conservatives losing all of their Welsh MPs (see Table 8.1). The latter’s calamitous result was thrown into even starker relief by the fact that the party had secured their best ever general election result in Wales in 2019 and that their result in the 2021 election for the devolved Welsh Parliament or Senedd represented another high-water mark: for the Conservatives this was a truly precipitous fall from grace.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics Research Institutes & Centres > Wales Governance Centre (WGCES)
Additional Information:	License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: https://academic.oup.com/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights, Start Date: 2025-08-01
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0031-2290
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2025 09:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/182409

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