Electoral history of Rishi Sunak

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Official portrait of Rishi Sunak, 2022

This is a summary of the electoral history of Rishi Sunak, the Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since October 2022. Sunak previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022, and has been the MP for Richmond (Yorks) since 2015.

Parliamentary elections[edit]

2015 general election, Richmond (Yorks)[edit]

General election 2015: Richmond (Yorks)[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Rishi Sunak 27,744 51.4 ―11.4
UKIP Matthew Cooke 8,194 15.2 New
Labour Mike Hill 7,124 13.2 ―2.1
Liberal Democrats John Harris 3,465 6.4 ―12.7
Independent John Blackie 3,348 6.2 New
Green Leslie Rowe 2,313 4.3 +1.5
Independent Robin Scott 1,811 3.4 New
Majority 19,550 36.2 ―7.5
Turnout 53,999 64.7 ―2.5
Conservative hold Swing ―13.3

2017 general election, Richmond (Yorks)[edit]

General election 2017: Richmond (Yorks)[3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Rishi Sunak 36,458 63.9 +12.5
Labour Dan Perry 13,350 23.4 +10.2
Liberal Democrats Tobie Abel 3,360 5.9 −0.5
Yorkshire Chris Pearson 2,106 3.7 New
Green Fiona Yorke 1,739 3.1 −1.2
Majority 23,108 40.5 +4.3
Turnout 57,013 70.5 +5.8
Conservative hold Swing +1.2

2019 general election, Richmond (Yorks)[edit]

General election 2019: Richmond (Yorks)[5][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Rishi Sunak 36,693 63.6 −0.3
Labour Thomas Kirkwood 9,483 16.4 −7.0
Liberal Democrats Philip Knowles 6,989 12.1 +6.2
Green John Yorke 2,500 4.3 +1.2
Yorkshire Laurence Waterhouse 1,077 1.9 −1.8
Independent Nick Jardine 961 1.7 New
Majority 27,210 47.2 +6.7
Turnout 57,703 69.9 −0.6
Conservative hold Swing +3.3

July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election[edit]

Candidate MPs' 1st ballot:
13 July 2022[7][8]
MPs' 2nd ballot:
14 July 2022[9][8]
MPs' 3rd ballot:
18 July 2022[10][8]
MPs' 4th ballot:
19 July 2022[11][8]
MPs' 5th ballot:
20 July 2022[12][8]
Members' vote
22 July to 2 September 2022[13][14][15]
Votes % Votes ± % Votes ± % Votes ± % Votes ± % Votes % % Votes cast
Liz Truss 50 14.0 64 +14 17.9 71 +7 19.8 86 +15 24.1 113 +27 31.6 81,326 47.2 57.4
Rishi Sunak 88 24.6 101 +13 28.2 115 +14 32.1 118 +3 33.1 137 +19 38.3 60,399 35.0 42.6
Penny Mordaunt 67 18.7 83 +16 23.2 82 −1 22.9 92 +10 25.8 105 +13 29.3 Eliminated
Kemi Badenoch 40 11.2 49 +9 13.7 58 +9 16.2 59 +1 16.5 Eliminated
Tom Tugendhat 37 10.3 32 −5 8.9 31 −1 8.7 Eliminated
Suella Braverman 32 8.9 27 −5 7.5 Eliminated
Nadhim Zahawi 25 7.0 Eliminated
Jeremy Hunt 18 5.0 Eliminated
Votes cast[rounding 1] 357 99.7 356 −1 99.4 357 +1 99.7 355 −2 99.4 355 0 99.2 141,725 82.2 100
Spoilt ballots 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 1 +1 0.3 2 +1 0.6 654 0.4
Abstentions 1 0.3 2 +1 0.6 1 −1 0.3 1 0 0.3 1 0 0.3 30,058 17.4
Registered voters 358 100.0 358 0 100.0 358 0 100.0 357 −1 100.0 358 +1 100.0 172,437 100.0

October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election[edit]

Nominated and elected unopposed by 197 Conservative MPs

Crispin Blunt[a][16]
Julie Marson[16]
Richard Holden[16]
Angela Richardson[16]
Steve Double[16]
Kevin Hollinrake[16]
Jo Gideon[16]
John Glen[16]
Simon Hart[16]
Andrew Bowie[16]
Anthony Mangnall[16]
Dominic Raab[16]
John Stevenson[16]
Gary Streeter[16]
Andrew Murrison[16]
Craig Williams[16]
Paul Maynard[16]
Simon Jupp[16]
James Cartlidge[16]
Bim Afolami[16]
Nick Gibb[16]
Maggie Throup[16]
Alex Chalk[16]
Fay Jones[16]
Edward Timpson[16]
Laura Trott[16]
Huw Merriman[16]
Laura Farris[16]
Simon Fell[16]
Helen Whately[16]
Jonathan Djanogly[16]
Mark Garnier[16]
Siobhan Baillie[16]
Rehman Chishti[16]
Damian Hinds[16]
James Morris[16]
Victoria Prentis[16]
Guy Opperman[16]
Robert Jenrick[16]
Robert Goodwill[16]
Richard Graham[16]
Mel Stride[16]
Robin Walker[16]
Claire Coutinho[16]
Robert Syms[16]
Simon Hoare[16]
Gavin Williamson[16]
Liam Fox[16]
Simon Baynes[16]
Bob Neill[17]
Anthony Browne[16]
Gareth Davies[18]
James Gray[16]
Steve Brine[16]
David TC Davies[16]
Mark Harper[16]
Robert Halfon[16]
George Eustice[16]
Ruth Edwards[16]
Mike Wood[16]
Stephen Hammond[16]
Greg Clark[16]
Andrew Jones[16]
John Baron[16]
Julian Sturdy[16]
Nigel Mills[16]
James Daly[16]
Julian Smith[16]
Philip Dunne[16]
Mark Logan[16]
David Rutley[16]
Andrew Bridgen[16]
James Wild[16]
Gillian Keegan[16]
Chris Philp[16]
Sajid Javid[16]
Lucy Frazer[16]
Jonathan Lord[16]
Johnny Mercer[16]
Duncan Baker[16]
Steve Barclay[16]
Andrew Percy[16]
Andrew Mitchell[16]
Stephen Crabb[16]
Sally-Ann Hart[16]
Rebecca Pow[16]
Jeremy Quin[16]
Jamie Wallis[16]
Oliver Dowden[16]
Matt Hancock[16]
Tom Tugendhat[16]
Alan Mak[16]
Tobias Ellwood[16]
Mark Menzies[16]
Miriam Cates[16]
Richard Bacon[16]
Martin Vickers[16]
Caroline Nokes[16]
Selaine Saxby[16]
Robert Largan[16]
David Mundell[16]
David Simmonds[19]
John Howell[16]
Philip Davies[16]
Iain Stewart[16]
Aaron Bell[16]
Paul Howell[16]
Helen Grant[16]
Chris Grayling[17]
Peter Bottomley[16]
Flick Drummond[16]
Fiona Bruce[18]
David Johnston[16]
Desmond Swayne[16]
Oliver Heald[16]
Andrew Selous[16]
Greg Hands[16]
Paul Beresford[17]
Graham Stuart[16]
David Davis[16]
Kemi Badenoch[16]
Alun Cairns[16]
Tom Hunt[16]
Tim Loughton[16]
Paul Holmes[16]
Greg Knight[16]
Daniel Poulter[18]
Justin Tomlinson[16]
Andrew Lewer[16]
Chris Loder[16]
Steve Baker[16]
Mike Freer[17]
Gagan Mohindra[17]
Geoffrey Cox[16]
Jesse Norman[16]
Grant Shapps[16]
Mark Pawsey[16]
Theresa Villiers[16]
Chloe Smith[16]
Matt Vickers[17]
Stuart Andrew[16]
Peter Gibson[16]
Will Quince[16]
Michelle Donelan[17]
Neil O'Brien[16]
Suella Braverman[16]
Nus Ghani[16]
Michael Tomlinson[19]
James Heappey[19]
Kevin Foster[16]
Jerome Mayhew[16]
Felicity Buchan
Nadhim Zahawi[b][16]
Chris Clarkson[18][b]
David Morris[19][b]
Anna Firth[16]
Shailesh Vara[19][b]
Jeremy Hunt[18]
Jonathan Gullis[19][b]
Edward Argar[18]
Pauline Latham[18]
James Duddridge[19][b]
Alex Burghart[17]
Leo Docherty[19][b]
James Cleverly[19][b]
Robert Courts[17]
Maria Caulfield[17]
Scott Mann[17]
Priti Patel[19][b]
Michael Gove[17]
Louie French[17]
Danny Kruger[17]
Andrew Stephenson[19][b]
John Whittingdale[19][b]
Mark Spencer[17]
Victoria Atkins[17]
Robert Buckland[17]
Tom Randall[17]
Peter Aldous[17]
Simon Clarke[19][b]
Gordon Henderson[b][17]
Mims Davies[17]
Andrew Griffith[17]
Brandon Lewis[17]
Jason McCartney[17]
Lucy Allan[b][19]
Richard Fuller[17]
Virginia Crosbie[19]
Jeremy Wright[19]
Royston Smith[19]
Chris Heaton-Harris[b][19]
Dean Russell[17]
Iain Duncan Smith[17]
Amanda Milling[17]
Tom Pursglove[b]
George Freeman[c][17]
Kate Kniveton[17]
  1. ^ Initially endorsed Jeremy Hunt, then switched to Sunak after Hunt ruled himself out of the leadership contest.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Initially endorsed Boris Johnson, then switched to Sunak after Johnson ruled himself out of the leadership contest.
  3. ^ Initially endorsed Penny Mordaunt, then switched to Sunak.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Due to rounding errors the sum of percentages may deviate.

References[edit]

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  2. ^ "Richmond (Yorks)". BBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
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  5. ^ "Electoral and elections documents: Statement of Persons Nominated Richmond (Yorks) & Notice of Poll". Hambleton District Council. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
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