All The MPs Standing Down At The Next General Election

With the next general election expected this year, many MPs who have already chosen to not stand again for their seats – the majority of whom are Conservatives.

The next general election must be called by December 2024, meaning it could be held as late as January 2025, but Prime Minister Rishi Sunak indicated at the start of the year that it was his "working assumption" that it would be in the second half of the year.

So far, 81 MPs have announced their intention to stand down as MPs at the next general election. At the last general election in 2019, a total of 74 MPs announced that they would not stand again, while in 2017's snap election it was 31 MPs.

PoliticsHome has compiled a list of all the MPs who are standing down at the next general election so far, along with when they announced their upcoming resignation, how their seat will be affected by the constituency boundary review, the year they were first elected, their vote majority in the 2019 election and their date of birth. The lists also include independent MPs, such as Matt Hancock, who ran in the 2019 election as part of a party but have since had the whip withdrawn.

The lists include MPs who are still sitting and do not intend to stand at the next election, but do not include any MPs who have already stood down and been replaced in by-elections, such as Nadine Dorries, Boris Johnson and most recently Chris Skidmore. 

Here all the MPs who have announced they are standing down at the next general election:

54 MPs who were elected as Conservatives in 2019 have announced they are standing down at the next general election so far.

Given the Conservatives' majority in Parliament, it is not surprising that the Tories are seeing most MPs out of all the parties call it