Electoral history of Rishi Sunak

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Official portrait of Rishi Sunak as MP for Richmond (Yorks), 2017

Template:Rishi Sunak sidebar 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 | edit source]

2015 general election, Richmond (Yorks)[edit | edit source]

This section is transcluded from Richmond (Yorks) (UK Parliament constituency). (edit | history)
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 | edit source]

This section is transcluded from Richmond (Yorks) (UK Parliament constituency). (edit | history)
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 | edit source]

This section is transcluded from Richmond (Yorks) (UK Parliament constituency). (edit | history)
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 | edit source]

This section is transcluded from July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. (edit | history)
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

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October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election[edit | edit source]

Nominated and elected unopposed by 197 Conservative MPs

Crispin Blunt[lower-alpha 1][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[lower-alpha 2][16]
Chris Clarkson[18][lower-alpha 2]
David Morris[19][lower-alpha 2]
Anna Firth[16]
Shailesh Vara[19][lower-alpha 2]
Jeremy Hunt[18]
Jonathan Gullis[19][lower-alpha 2]
Edward Argar[18]
Pauline Latham[18]
James Duddridge[19][lower-alpha 2]
Alex Burghart[17]
Leo Docherty[19][lower-alpha 2]
James Cleverly[19][lower-alpha 2]
Robert Courts[17]
Maria Caulfield[17]
Scott Mann[17]
Priti Patel[19][lower-alpha 2]
Michael Gove[17]
Louie French[17]
Danny Kruger[17]
Andrew Stephenson[19][lower-alpha 2]
John Whittingdale[19][lower-alpha 2]
Mark Spencer[17]
Victoria Atkins[17]
Robert Buckland[17]
Tom Randall[17]
Peter Aldous[17]
Simon Clarke[19][lower-alpha 2]
Gordon Henderson[lower-alpha 2][17]
Mims Davies[17]
Andrew Griffith[17]
Brandon Lewis[17]
Jason McCartney[17]
Lucy Allan[lower-alpha 2][19]
Richard Fuller[17]
Virginia Crosbie[19]
Jeremy Wright[19]
Royston Smith[19]
Chris Heaton-Harris[lower-alpha 2][19]
Dean Russell[17]
Iain Duncan Smith[17]
Amanda Milling[17]
Tom Pursglove[lower-alpha 2]
George Freeman[lower-alpha 3][17]
Kate Kniveton[17]
  1. ↑ Initially endorsed Jeremy Hunt, then switched to Sunak after Hunt ruled himself out of the leadership contest.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 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 | edit source]

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

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Richmond (Yorks)". BBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Statement of Persons Nominated" (PDF). Hambleton District Council. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "BBC Election Site". BBC. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Electoral and elections documents: Statement of Persons Nominated Richmond (Yorks) & Notice of Poll". Hambleton District Council. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  6. ↑ Minting, Stuart (13 December 2019). "Rishi Sunak increases Conservative majority in Richmond". Darlington and Stockton Times. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Clarke, Seán; Leach, Anna (14 July 2022). "Tory leadership election: full results". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ "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.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ "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.
  16. ↑ 16.000 16.001 16.002 16.003 16.004 16.005 16.006 16.007 16.008 16.009 16.010 16.011 16.012 16.013 16.014 16.015 16.016 16.017 16.018 16.019 16.020 16.021 16.022 16.023 16.024 16.025 16.026 16.027 16.028 16.029 16.030 16.031 16.032 16.033 16.034 16.035 16.036 16.037 16.038 16.039 16.040 16.041 16.042 16.043 16.044 16.045 16.046 16.047 16.048 16.049 16.050 16.051 16.052 16.053 16.054 16.055 16.056 16.057 16.058 16.059 16.060 16.061 16.062 16.063 16.064 16.065 16.066 16.067 16.068 16.069 16.070 16.071 16.072 16.073 16.074 16.075 16.076 16.077 16.078 16.079 16.080 16.081 16.082 16.083 16.084 16.085 16.086 16.087 16.088 16.089 16.090 16.091 16.092 16.093 16.094 16.095 16.096 16.097 16.098 16.099 16.100 16.101 16.102 16.103 16.104 16.105 16.106 16.107 16.108 16.109 16.110 16.111 16.112 16.113 16.114 16.115 16.116 16.117 16.118 16.119 16.120 16.121 16.122 16.123 16.124 16.125 16.126 16.127 16.128 16.129 16.130 16.131 16.132 16.133 16.134 16.135 16.136 16.137 16.138 16.139 Grierson, Jamie (21 October 2022). "Johnson, Mordaunt or Sunak: who is backing whom as next Tory leader". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 October 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  17. ↑ 17.00 17.01 17.02 17.03 17.04 17.05 17.06 17.07 17.08 17.09 17.10 17.11 17.12 17.13 17.14 17.15 17.16 17.17 17.18 17.19 17.20 17.21 17.22 17.23 17.24 17.25 17.26 17.27 17.28 17.29 "The race to 100 – who are Tory MPs backing to be the next prime minister?". Sky News. 21 October 2022. Archived from the original on 21 October 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 "Who's backing whom?". The Spectator. 22 October 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  19. ↑ 19.00 19.01 19.02 19.03 19.04 19.05 19.06 19.07 19.08 19.09 19.10 19.11 19.12 19.13 19.14 19.15 19.16 19.17 "Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt: Who are MPs backing?". BBC News. 20 October 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022.

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