<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> 2017 election </Li> <Li> MPs </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> 2017 election </Li> <Li> MPs </Li> </Ul> <P> The United Kingdom general election of 2017 took place on Thursday 8 June . Each of the 650 constituencies elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons . Under the Fixed - term Parliaments Act 2011 an election had not been due until 7 May 2020, but a call by Prime Minister Theresa May for a snap election was ratified by the necessary supermajority in a 522 - 13 vote in the House of Commons on 19 April 2017 . </P> <P> The Conservative Party (which had governed as a senior coalition partner from 2010 and as a majority government from 2015) was defending a working majority of 17 seats against the Labour Party, the official opposition led by Jeremy Corbyn . May had said that she hoped to secure a larger majority for the Conservative Party in order to "strengthen (her) hand in (the forthcoming Brexit) negotiations". </P>

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