UK leadership election results 2022

Liz Truss will become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after winning 57.4 percent of the vote in the final round of the Conservative Party leadership contest. The leadership contest began in July following the resignation of Boris Johnson, and was followed by 357 Conservative MPs voting in five ballot rounds to reduce the leadership contest from eight candidates to two. The remaining two candidates; Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, faced off in a final round where over 141,000 Conservative Party members were able to vote for their next leader, who would also become Prime Minister of the UK. Truss won 81,236 votes to Sunak's 60,399, and will inherit a variety of problems as leader of the country. The UK is facing a severe cost of living crisis, driven by a surging inflation rate, which reached 10.1 percent in the most recent month.

Percentage of votes won in the Conservative party leadership elections in the United Kingdom in 2022, by round

Characteristic	Liz Truss	Rishi Sunak	Penny Mordaunt	Kemi Badenoch	Tom Tugendhat	Suella Braverman	Nadhim Zahawi	Jeremy Hunt
Final round*	57.4%	42.6%	-	-	-	-	-	-
Round 5	31.8%	38.6%	29.6%	-	-	-	-	-
Round 4	24.2%	33.2%	25.9%	16.6%	-	-	-	-
Round 3	19.9%	32.2%	23%	16.2%	8.7%	-	-	-
Round 2	18%	28.4%	23.3%	13.8%	9%	7.6%	-	-
Round 1	14%	24.6%	18.8%	11.2%	10.4%	9%	7%	5%

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Release date

September 2022

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

July 13 to September 5, 2022

Supplementary notes

*The final round of the contest was voted on by approximately 141,635 Conservative party members, Rounds 1 to 5 were votes by 357 Conservative Members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons.

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