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The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 7 May 2015 to elect 650 members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons.The Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister David Cameron, won an unexpected majority victory of ten seats; they had been leading a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats.
The following table is a list of seats changing hands as a result of the election based on the results of the 2015 election compared to the General Election held in May 2010, [1] and so notwithstanding the results of by-elections to the 55th Parliament.
1 Results by parliamentary constituency. 2 See also. ... The results of the 2015 United Kingdom general election, by parliamentary constituency were as follows: [1]
The 2015 United Kingdom general election in England was held on Thursday, 7 May 2015 for 533 English seats to the House of Commons. The Conservatives won a majority of seats in England for the second time since 1992. Both major parties made gains at the expense of the Liberal Democrats, whose support collapsed to its lowest level since 1970 ...
The 2015 United Kingdom general election in Wales was held on 7 May 2015 and all 40 seats in Wales were contested. [1] [2] The election for each seat was conducted on the basis of first-past-the-post. Despite the Labour party winning the most votes in Wales, the Conservatives won across the UK. [3]
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
The Yes campaign took 44.7% of the vote in Scotland on a high turnout of 84.6%: well beyond the SNP's 19.9% vote share at the 2010 UK general election. This took form at the 2015 UK general election with a saturation of the SNP vote in areas which had a higher "Yes" vote at the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Scottish Labour had held the ...
Polling results for the 2015 UK General Election, compared to the actual result. In the run up to the general election on 7 May 2015, various organisations carried out opinion polling to gauge voting intention. Results of such polls are displayed in this article.