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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.
UKIP had seven members elected to the Welsh Assembly at the 2016 election. Following multiple defections, there was only one UKIP Assembly member (now Member of the Senedd, MS) by the time of the 2021 Senedd election: Neil Hamilton; Nathan Gill was elected in 2016, but left the Assembly group later that year to sit as an Independent. [13]
The SNP enjoyed their best election result, gaining forty seats from Labour and ten from the Liberal Democrats to hold 56 of Scotland's 59 constituencies. [3] The other parties held one seat each. The Liberal Democrats had been part of a coalition government with the Conservatives prior to the election with 57 seats in parliament.
The results of the 2015 United Kingdom general election, ... Last elctn Winning party Turnout [a] Votes Party Votes Share Majrty Con [b ... UKIP: 19,642: 44.4%: 3,437 ...
Dissolution of Parliament and the official start of the election campaign: 24–27 Mar 2015 YouGov/ITV Wales: 1,189 11% 40%: 25% 5% 14% 5% 1% 15% 26 Mar 2015: First TV election interview by Jeremy Paxman with David Cameron and Ed Miliband on Sky and Channel 4: 5–9 Mar 2015 YouGov/ITV Wales: 1,279 10% 39%: 25% 5% 14% 6% 1% 14% 19–21 Jan 2015 ...
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.
The Huffington Post has partnered with YouGov to conduct daily public opinion polls on the issues of the day, and provide a polling widget allowing readers of the online news site to compare their views to those of the nation as a whole.
Make Votes Matter said that in the 2017 general election, "the Green Party, Liberal Democrats and UKIP (minor, non-regional parties) received 11% of votes between them, yet they shared just 2% of seats", and in the 2015 general election, "[t]he same three parties received almost a quarter of all the votes cast, yet these parties shared just 1.5 ...