Why are British election dates not as rigid as American ones? US elections are on Nov 3 every four years. But in the U.K. there was one on 2010, then no election til 2015 and then one in 2017
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The US Election Day isn’t November 3, it’s the first Tuesday in November. It hasn’t been on the 3rd since 2020. Also, it’s only the Presidential election that is held every four years; Congressional and Senate elections are held every two years, and state and local-level elections can be held in other years too.
The UK has an entirely different system of government. The Prime Minister is not elected by the people, he or she is chosen by the majority party in Parliament. A Parliament can sit for at most five years, after which they must have an election, but the Prime Minister can call for early elections if they want. Because this can happen at any time of year, there is no set day except that in the UK it is conventionally always a Thursday.
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