2022 Derek election

The 2022 Derek election was held on Thursday, 15 December 2022 to elect 220 members of the House of Commons. The incumbent Christian Democrat-Liberal coalition government retained its majority however it was significantly reduced.

Date of the election
The election was called on 15 November 2022, with political campaigning for four weeks until election day on 15 December. On the day of the election, voting stations across the country were open from 8 am, and closed at 8 pm.

Contesting political parties and candidates
Most candidates are representatives of a political party, which must be registered with the Electoral Commission's Register of Political Parties. Candidates who do not belong to a registered party can use an "independent" label, or no label at all. Historically, no independent candidates have ever been elected.

Major parties that contested this election are shown in the table below with their results at the 2020 election, ordered by the number of seats they won.

Debates
Only two debates were held ahead of the 2022 election. To qualify for the debates, parties had to have achieved 10% of the popular vote in the last election or be above 5% in an average of recent opinion polls.

First debate (24 November)
The first debate ahead of the 2022 election was held on November 24, 2022. Starting at 8:00 p.m., it was aired on all major television networks and was broadcast on radio by a number of stations. Opinion polling following the debate showed that it was won by the Christian Democrats leader Amber Byrne.

Second debate (30 November)
The second debate ahead of the 2022 election was held on November 30, 2022. Starting at 6:00 p.m., it was aired on all major television networks and was broadcast on radio by a number of stations. Opinion polling following the debate showed that it was once again won by the Christian Democrats leader Amber Byrne but Mark Adams of the Green Party placed second over Labour's leader.