All MPs standing down ahead of the 2024 General Election

Six more Conservative MPs have announced they will not be standing in the General Election after Rishi Sunak named the date as 4 July.

That means that there are now a total of 121 MPs who have declared that they will not seek re-election this time. Of these, 83 were elected to Parliament as Conservative Members. Six of them have made their announcement in the last 24 hours, with the latest to announce their resignation, including two former contenders for the leadership of the party – Michael Gove and Andrew Leadsom.

They join a retirement list that includes former prime minister Theresa May and former cabinet ministers Matt Hancock, Dominic Raab, Nadhim Zahawi, John Redwood and Ben Wallace. Since Mr. Sunak announced the date of the election on Wednesday evening, a total of 15 MPs have publicly declared that they would not seek re-election, eleven of them Conservative MPs.

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As well as Michael Gove and Andrew Leadsom, the other MPs who have publicly declared that they are standing down since the election was called are Jo Churchill (Bury St Edmunds), Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest), James Grundy (Leigh) , Huw Merriman (Bexhill and Battle), Sir Michael Ellis (Northampton North), John Redwood (Wokingham), Sir David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford), Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells) and Craig Mackinlay (South Thanet).

Three Labor MPs – Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield), Holly Lynch (Halifax) and Kevan Jones (Durham North) – have joined the Westminster exodus. Representatives of former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson also confirmed that he would not be seeking re-election in Glenlagan. Just over a fifth of the 365 MPs elected as Conservatives in 2019 have now announced they are standing down.

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Of the 121 MPs who resigned, these are the parties they represented when they were first elected to Parliament:

83 Conservative

24 Works

9 SNPs

2 Sinn Fien

1 DUP

1 Plaid Cymru

1 Green

A number of the outgoing MPs are currently sitting in Parliament as Independents following the resignation, or loss, of the party’s shepherd. Here is the full list of MPs who have announced they will not contest the next General Election, grouped by the party they represented when elected to Parliament:

Conservative

• Douglas Ross (Moray)

• Sir Charles Walker (Broxbourne)

• Crispin Blunt (Reigate)

• Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead)

• Adam Afriyie (Windsor)

• Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire)

• Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green)

• Sir Robert Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst)

• Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne)

• Nickie Aiken (Cities of London and Westminster)

• Lisa Cameron (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow)

• Tracey Crouch (Catham and Aylesford)

• Dr Kieran Mullan (Crewe and Nantwich)

• Paul Scully (Sutton and Cheam)

• Theresa May (Maidenhead)

• Jo Churchill (Bury St Edmunds)

• Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest)

• Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole)

• Chloe Smith (Norwich North)

• William Wragg (Hazel Grove)

• Dehenna Davison (Bishop Auckland)

• Sir Gary Streeter (South West Devon)

• Chris Skidmore (Kingswood)

• Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove)

• Mark Pawsey (Rugby)

• George Eustice (Camborne and Redruth)

• Edward Timpson (Eddisbury)

• Jo Gideon (Stoke-on-Trent Central)

• Stephen McPartland (Stevenage)

• Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley)

• Robin Walker (Worcester)

• Sir Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West)

• Pauline Latham (Central Derbyshire)

• Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey)

• Craig Whittaker (Calder Valley)

• Nicola Richards (West Bromwich East)

• Henry Smith (Crawley)

• John Howell (Henley)

• Sir Robert Goodwill (Scarborough and Whitby)

• Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon)

• Dr Matthew Offord (Hendon)

• Alister Jack (Dumfries and Galloway)

• Richard Bacon (South Norfolk)

• Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton)

• Philip Dunne (Ludlow)

• Andy Carter (South Warrington)

• Will Quince (Colchester)

• Royston Smith (Southampton, Itchen)

• Sir William Cash (Stone)

• Lucy Allan (Telford)

• Steve Brine (Winchester)

• Sir Greg Knight (East Yorkshire)

• Chris Clarkson (Heywood and Middleton)

• Ben Wallace (Wyre and North Preston)

• Trudy Harrison (Copeland)

• Stuart Andrew (Pudsey)

• Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon)

• David Jones (Clwyd West)

• Sir Alok Sharma (West Reading)

• Chris Grayling (Epsom and Ewell)

• Jamie Wallis (Bridgend)

• John Baron (Basildon and Billericay)

• Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)

• Sir James Duddridge (Rochford and Southend East)

• Brandon Lewis (Great Yarmouth)

• James Heappey (Wells)

• Robert Halfon (Harlow)

• Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham)

• Nadhim Zahawi (Strath na Abhann)

• Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry)

• Mark Menzies (Fylde)

• Matt Hancock (West Suffolk)

• Julian Knight (Solihull)

• Bob Stewart (Beckenham)

• James Grundy (Leigh)

• Sir Michael Ellis (Northampton North)

• John Redwood (Wokingham)

• Sir David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford)

• Michael Gove (Surrey Heath)

• Angela Leadsom (Southamptonshire)

• Craig Mackinlay (Teane South)

• Huw Merriman (Bexhill and Cath)

• Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells)

Labour

• Alex Cunningham (North Stockton)

• Dame Margaret Hodge (Barking)

• Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield)

• Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham)

• Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test)

• Ben Bradshaw (Exeter)

• Wayne David (Caerphilly)

• Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central)

• Dame Rosie Winterton (Doncaster Central)

• Margaret Beckett (Derby South)

• John Cruddas (Dagenham and Rainham)

• Colleen Fletcher (Coventry North East)

• Karen Buck (Westminster North)

• Christina Rees (Neath)

• Ian Mearns (Gateshead)

• Margaret Greenwood (Wirral West)

• George Howarth (Knowsley)

• Dr Dan Poulter (Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

• Natalie Elphicke (Dover)

• Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield)

• Holly Lynch (Halifax)

• Conor McGinn (St Helens North)

• Nick Brown (Newcastle on East Tyne)

• Kevin Jones (Durham North)

SNP

• Ian Blackford (Ross, Skye and Lochber)

• Peter Grant (Glentach)

• Angela Crawley (Lanark and Hamilton East)

• Douglas Chapman (Fermline Castle and West Fife)

• Stewart Hosie (East Dundee)

• Mhairi Black (Paisley and Renfrewshire South)

• John McNally (Freckles)

• Philippa Whitford (Mid Ayrshire)

• Patrick Grady (Glasgow North)

DUP

Ourselves

Green

Plaid Cymru