Forecast #GE2024 – 15th June 2024


This is our latest daily forecast for the 2024 General Election in the UK. This forecast is made on the basis of an election taking place on 4 July 2024.

Forecasts are made on the basis of new constituency boundaries.

What does your forecast show? – We show the most likely range of possible seats for each party.

What do you use for your forecast? – We use all the latest polling data, where available. We also look at the betting markets and other information to help guide our forecast. We calculate the interaction between the support for the parties on as local a level as statistically possible and then use this to run a Monte Carlo simulation of the election.

What has changed since the last forecast? – We have made slight adjustments to our tactical voting assumptions.

What do you predict will happen in Seat X? What is the probability of Party Y having more votes than Z? – As we approach the election we reduce uncertainty in our model and are able to answer questions like this. Whilst we do not automatically publish a prediction for each seat, we can indicate a most likely outcome if required and also probabilities of victory for each candidate.

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Commentary

For the first time ever, our model indicates that Rishi Sunak has a less than 50% chance of holding onto his seat.

We continue to see an SNP recovery in Scotland and anticipate crossover on votes with Labour in the next 48 hours.

The Lib Dems continue to rise slowly and eat into Conservative support in the South.

Richmond and Northallerton
% Chance to Win

Rishi Sunak – 48.7%
Tom Wilson – 43.2%
Lee Martin – 8.0%

Key Features

The overall summary of our forecast is “Labour on course for a landslide”.

UK Forecast

Party% VoteForecastChange on 2019
Labour41.6% (+9.5%)459 – 489+259 to +289
Conservatives20.2% (-23.5%)71 – 94-300 to -277
Reform15.8% (+13.8%)1 – 11+1 to +11
Liberal Democrats10.3% (-1.3%)40 – 44+31 to +35
Green6.0% (+3.3%)0 – 1-1 to nc
SNP3.0% (-0.9%)20 – 24-28 to -24
Plaid Cymru0.6% (+0.2%)2 – 5nc to +3
Speaker 1 nc
Northern Ireland 18 nc

Most likely result – Labour Landslide

England

Party% VoteForecastChange on 2019
Labour43.5% (+9.6%)407 – 436+226 to +255
Conservatives21.4% (-25.9%)64 – 87-289 to -266
Reform17.4% (+15.3%)1 – 11+1 to +11
Liberal Democrats11.1% (-1.4%)36 – 40+29 to +33
Green6.6% (+3.6%)0 – 1-1 to 0
Speaker 1 nc

Most likely result – Labour Majority of seats

Scotland

Party% VoteForecastChange on 2019
Labour35.2% (+16.7%)26 – 29+25 to +28
SNP34.6% (-10.4%)20 – 24-28 to -24
Conservatives13.9% (-11.2%)3 – 5-3 to -1
Liberal Democrats 7.9% (-1.7%)2 – 5nc to +3
Reform5.9% (+5.5%)0nc
Greens2.4% (+1.4%)0nc

Wales

Party% VoteForecastChanges on 2019
Labour41.9% (+1.0%)24 – 26+6 to +8
Conservatives20.5% (-15.6%)2 – 4-10 to -8
Reform13.9% (+8.5%)0nc
Plaid Cymru13.0% (+3.1%)2 – 5nc to +3
Liberal Democrats 5.9% (-0.1%)0 – 1nc to +1
Greens4.6% (+3.6%)0nc

Most Likely Result – Labour Majority of Seats

Northern Ireland

Party% VoteForecastChanges on 2019
Sinn Fein28.4% (+5.6%)6 – 8nc to +1
DUP20.9% (-9.6%)5 – 8-2 to +2
Alliance15.6% (-1.2%)0 – 3-1 to +2
UUP12.3% (+0.7%)0 – 2nc to +2
TUV12.1% (new)0new
SDLP10.5% (-4.3%)1 – 3-1 to +1

Most Likely Result – Sinn Fein Plurality

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