
This is a summary of the electoral history of Liz Truss, the Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk since 2010 who served as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from September to October 2022, making her the shortest serving Prime Minister in history. Truss previously served as Foreign Secretary from 2021 to 2022.
Council elections[edit | edit source]
1998 Greenwich London Borough Council election, Vanbrugh[edit | edit source]
1998 Greenwich London Borough Council election
2002 Greenwich London Borough Council election, Blackheath Westcombe[edit | edit source]
2002 Greenwich London Borough Council election
2006 Greenwich London Borough Council election, Eltham South[edit | edit source]
2006 Greenwich London Borough Council election
Parliamentary elections[edit | edit source]
2001 general election, Hemsworth[edit | edit source]
Hemsworth (UK Parliament constituency)
2005 general election, Calder Valley[edit | edit source]
Calder Valley (UK Parliament constituency)
2010 general election, South West Norfolk[edit | edit source]
South West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)
2015 general election, South West Norfolk[edit | edit source]
South West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)
2017 general election, South West Norfolk[edit | edit source]
South West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)
2019 general election, South West Norfolk[edit | edit source]
South West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)
2022 Conservative Party leadership election[edit | edit source]
| Candidate | MPs' 1st ballot: 13 July 2022[1][2] |
MPs' 2nd ballot: 14 July 2022[3][2] |
MPs' 3rd ballot: 18 July 2022[4][2] |
MPs' 4th ballot: 19 July 2022[5][2] |
MPs' 5th ballot: 20 July 2022[6][2] |
Members' vote 22 July to 2 September 2022[7][8][9] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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Notes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Due to rounding errors the sum of percentages may deviate.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Stone, Jon (13 July 2022). "Tory leadership vote: The first round results in full". The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Clarke, Seán; Leach, Anna (14 July 2022). "Tory leadership election: full results". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022.
- ↑ Stone, Jon (14 July 2022). "Tory leadership vote: The second round results in full". The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ↑ "The third Tory leadership ballot – as it happened | The Spectator". The Spectator. 18 July 2022. Archived from the original on 27 August 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ↑ Stone, Jon (19 July 2022). "Tory leadership vote: The fourth round results in full". The Independent. Archived from the original on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- ↑ Stone, Jon (20 July 2022). "Tory leadership vote: The fifth round results in full". The Independent. Archived from the original on 20 July 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ↑ Maldment, Jack (5 September 2022). "Tory leadership result: New prime minister to be announced imminently - watch live". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
- ↑ Piper, Elizabeth; Maclellan, Kylie (5 September 2022). "Liz Truss named as Britain's next prime minister". Reuters. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
- ↑ "Liz Truss wins leadership race". BBC. 5 September 2022. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
"Graham Brady reveals Liz Truss has been elected as new Tory leader". BBC News. 5 September 2022. Archived from the original on 6 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.