This is the electorate’s first opportunity to choose their local Member of Parliament, or MP, in Westminster since December 2019.
Most people in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland will cast their ballots in person at polling places to select their favorite candidate.
Using postal votes, others have already completed the same task.
Here are some essential details to be aware of:.
What date is the general election in the UK? Who made that decision?
In the UK, polling places opened at 07:00 BST (02:00 EST) and closed at 22:00.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the date of July 4 in a televised speech on May 22.
He had to declare a vote by 17 December, according to rules that required him to do so before the fifth anniversary of the day that the previous Parliament first sat.
Who can vote?
Anyone on the UK electoral register who is 18 or over on polling day can vote – as long as they are a UK citizen, a qualifying citizen of a country in the Commonwealth, or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland who has an address in the UK.
And UK citizens living abroad can vote in areas where they were previously on the electoral roll.
People who cannot vote in general elections include prisoners serving a sentence in jail, and members of the UK’s upper chamber, the House of Lords.
