Forecast #GE2024 – 17th 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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Key Features

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

UK Forecast

Party% VoteForecastChange on 2019
Labour40.9% (+8.8%)456 – 480+256 to +280
Conservatives20.0% (-23.7%)81 – 96-290 to -275
Reform16.9% (+14.9%)1 – 18+1 to +18
Liberal Democrats10.8% (-0.7%)45 – 52+36 to +43
Green5.7% (+3.0%)0 – 1-1 to nc
SNP2.5% (-1.4%)11 – 13-37 to -35
Plaid Cymru0.5% (+0.1%)2 – 5nc to +3
Speaker 1 nc
Northern Ireland 18 nc

Most likely result – Labour Landslide

England

Party% VoteForecastChange on 2019
Labour42.3% (+8.4%)394 – 421+213 to +240
Conservatives21.1% (-26.2%)72 – 88-281 to -265
Reform18.6% (+16.6%)1 – 18+1 to +18
Liberal Democrats11.7% (-0.7%)41 – 47+34 to +40
Green6.2% (+3.2%)0 – 1-1 to 0
Speaker 1 nc

Most likely result – Labour Majority of seats

Scotland

Party% VoteForecastChange on 2019
Labour38.5% (+20.0%)33 – 38+32 to +37
SNP29.3% (-15.7%)11 – 13-37 to -35
Conservatives13.8% (-11.3%)4 – 7-2 to +1
Liberal Democrats 8.2% (-1.4%)2 – 6nc to +4
Reform6.5% (+6.0%)0nc
Greens3.7% (+2.7%)0nc

Wales

Party% VoteForecastChanges on 2019
Labour42.5% (+1.6%)24 – 26+6 to +8
Conservatives21.4% (-14.7%)2 – 5-10 to -7
Plaid Cymru11.2% (+1.2%)2 – 5nc to +3
Reform15.2% (+9.8%)0nc
Liberal Democrats 5.8% (-0.1%)0nc
Greens3.7% (+2.7%)0nc

Most Likely Result – Labour Majority of Seats

Northern Ireland

Party% VoteForecastChanges on 2019
Sinn Fein25.7% (+3.0%)6 – 8-1 to +1
DUP21.3% (-9.3%)5 – 7-3 to -1
Alliance17.3% (+0.5%)1 – 3nc to +2
SDLP12.6% (-2.2%)1 – 3-1 to +1
UUP12.1% (+0.5%)0 – 2nc to +2
TUV8.9% (new)0new

Most Likely Result – Sinn Fein Plurality

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