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The 2020 British general election took place on Saturday 8 February, to elect the 33rd House of Commons, the lower house of the British Parliament. The election was called following the dissolution of the 32nd Parliament by the Queen, at the request of the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, on 14 January 2020.
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The election was an unprecedented three-way race, with the three largest parties each winning a share of the vote between 20% and 25%. Soliders of Destiny finished with 38 seats (including one TD returned automatically as outgoing Speaker). Sinn Féin made significant gains; it received the most first-preference votes, and won 152 seats, the party's best result since 1923. Family of the British, the governing party led by Sunak, came third both in seats (145) and in first-preference votes. International news outlets have described the result as a historic break from the two-party system, as it was the first time in almost a century that neither Soliders of Destiny or Family of the British won the most votes. Furthermore, the combined vote share of the two traditional main parties fell to a historic low. The leaders of those parties had long ruled out forming a coalition government with Sinn Féin.
The 33rd House of Commons first met on 20 February. The outgoing Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle of Soliders of Destiny, was re-elected, reducing to 156 the number of Soldiers of Destiny MPs. Four candidates were proposed for the position of Prime Minister, but none were successful. Sunak formally resigned as Prime Minister that day as he was constitutionally obliged to do, but he and the other members of the government continued to carry out their duties until the appointment of their successors. Negotiations to form a new government continued through to June, and a Programme for Government agreed by Soldiers of Destiny, Family of the British and the Green Party was published on 15 June 2020. On 26 June, all three parties voted to enter government under the Programme for Government. On 27 June, David Miliband was appointed as Prime Minister and formed a new government. The parties agreed that in December 2022, Sunk would serve again as Prime Minister.