Results breakdown of the 2015 United Kingdom general election
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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This is the results breakdown of the 2015 United Kingdom general election.
Swing
The shares of votes of each party changed as follows:
Party | 2010% | 2015% | ∆% |
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Conservative Party | 36.1 | 36.8 | +0.7 |
Labour Party | 29.0 | 30.5 | +1.5 |
Scottish National Party | 1.7 | 4.7 | +3.0 |
Liberal Democrats | 23.0 | 7.9 | −15.1 |
Green Party | 0.9 | 3.8 | +2.9 |
UK Independence Party | 3.1 | 12.7 | +9.6 |
Other | 6.2 | 3.6 | −2.6 |
Totals | 100.0 | 100.0 | – |
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.
The Conservative Party became the first party in government since the 1983 general election to increase the number of seats they held at a general election. In total they gained 24 seats to win an overall majority of 12.[2] They gained six seats from Labour in England and two in Wales, while also winning 16 seats from their former coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats.
The Labour Party had a net loss of 26 seats, see table below. Although they did gain twelve seats in England from the Conservatives (eight of them in London) and 23 from the Liberal Democrats, they suffered their worst defeat in Scotland in the age of universal suffrage, losing forty of their forty-one seats to the Scottish National Party (SNP).[3] They also had a net loss of one seat in Wales.[4] Ed Miliband immediately resigned as leader, handing over temporarily to deputy leader Harriet Harman.
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. However, they held just eight seats, their worst election result since the old Liberal Party secured six seats in 1970.[5] Of the five Liberal Democrat cabinet ministers, three lost their seats.[6] They also lost 338 deposits.[7] As a result, Nick Clegg, although he was one of the two surviving ministers, resigned as leader.[6]
The Green Party and UK Independence Party (UKIP) each held one seat: UKIP, however, failed to defend Rochester and Strood, which it had won in a by-election in 2014.[8]
Seats changing hands
Seat | 2010 election | 2015 election | ||
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Aberdeen North | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Aberdeen South | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | Liberal Democrats | Scottish National gain | ||
Airdrie and Shotts | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Argyll and Bute | Liberal Democrats | Scottish National gain | ||
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Bath | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Belfast East | Alliance | Democratic Unionist gain | ||
Bermondsey and Old Southwark | Liberal Democrats | Labour gain | ||
Berwick-upon-Tweed | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | Liberal Democrats | Scottish National gain | ||
Birmingham, Yardley | Liberal Democrats | Labour gain | ||
Bolton West | Labour | Conservative gain | ||
Bradford East | Liberal Democrats | Labour gain | ||
Brecon and Radnorshire | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Brent Central | Liberal Democrats | Labour gain | ||
Brentford and Isleworth | Conservative | Labour gain | ||
Bristol West | Liberal Democrats | Labour gain | ||
Burnley | Liberal Democrats | Labour gain | ||
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | Liberal Democrats | Scottish National gain | ||
Cambridge | Liberal Democrats | Labour gain | ||
Cardiff Central | Liberal Democrats | Labour gain | ||
Central Ayrshire | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Cheadle | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Cheltenham | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Chippenham | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
City of Chester | Conservative | Labour gain | ||
Clacton | Conservative | UKIP gain | ||
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Colchester | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Derby North | Labour | Conservative gain | ||
Dewsbury | Conservative | Labour gain | ||
Dumfries and Galloway | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Dundee West | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Dunfermline and West Fife | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Ealing Central and Acton | Conservative | Labour gain | ||
East Dunbartonshire | Liberal Democrats | Scottish National gain | ||
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
East Lothian | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
East Renfrewshire | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Eastbourne | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Eastleigh | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Edinburgh East | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Edinburgh North and Leith | Labour Co-op | Scottish National gain | ||
Edinburgh South West | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Edinburgh West | Liberal Democrats | Scottish National gain | ||
Enfield North | Conservative | Labour gain | ||
Falkirk | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Sinn Féin | Ulster Unionist gain | ||
Glasgow Central | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Glasgow East | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Glasgow North | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Glasgow North East | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Glasgow North West | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Glasgow South | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Glasgow South West | Labour Co-op | Scottish National gain | ||
Glenrothes | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Gordon | Liberal Democrats | Scottish National gain | ||
Gower | Labour | Conservative gain | ||
Hazel Grove | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Hornsey and Wood Green | Liberal Democrats | Labour gain | ||
Hove | Conservative | Labour gain | ||
Ilford North | Conservative | Labour gain | ||
Inverclyde | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | Liberal Democrats | Scottish National gain | ||
Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Labour Co-op | Scottish National gain | ||
Kingston and Surbiton | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Lanark and Hamilton East | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Lancaster and Fleetwood | Conservative | Labour gain | ||
Lewes | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Livingston | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Manchester Withington | Liberal Democrats | Labour gain | ||
Mid Dorset and North Poole | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Midlothian | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Morley and Outwood | Labour Co-op | Conservative gain | ||
Motherwell and Wishaw | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
North Ayrshire and Arran | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
North Cornwall | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
North Devon | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
North East Fife | Liberal Democrats | Scottish National gain | ||
Norwich South | Liberal Democrats | Labour gain | ||
Ochil and Perthshire South | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Paisley and Renfrewshire North | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Paisley and Renfrewshire South | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Plymouth Moorview | Labour | Conservative gain | ||
Portsmouth South | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Redcar | Liberal Democrats | Labour gain | ||
Ross, Skye and Lochaber | Liberal Democrats | Scottish National gain | ||
Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
St Austell and Newquay | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
St Ives | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Solihull | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Somerton and Frome | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
South Antrim | Democratic Unionist | Ulster Unionist gain | ||
Southampton Itchen | Labour | Conservative gain | ||
Stirling | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Sutton and Cheam | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Taunton Deane | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Telford | Labour | Conservative gain | ||
Thornbury and Yate | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Torbay | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Twickenham | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
Vale of Clwyd | Labour | Conservative gain | ||
Wells | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain | ||
West Dunbartonshire | Labour | Scottish National gain | ||
Wirral West | Conservative | Labour gain | ||
Wolverhampton South West | Conservative | Labour gain | ||
Yeovil | Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain |
England
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Conservative Party | 318 | |
Labour Party | 206 | |
Liberal Democrats | 6 | |
UK Independence Party | 1 | |
Green Party | 1 | |
Speaker | 1 | |
Total | 533 |
East of England
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Conservative | 52 | |
Labour | 4 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1 | |
UKIP | 1 | |
Total | 58 |
East Midlands
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Conservative | 32 | |
Labour | 14 | |
Total | 46 |
London
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Labour | 45 | |
Conservative | 27 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1 | |
Total | 73 |
North East
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Labour | 26 | |
Conservative | 3 | |
Total | 29 |
North West
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Labour | 51 | |
Conservative | 22 | |
Liberal Democrats | 2 | |
Total | 75 |
South East
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Conservative | 78 | |
Labour | 4 | |
Green | 1 | |
Speaker | 1 | |
Total | 84 |
South West
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Conservative | 51 | |
Labour | 4 | |
Total | 55 |
West Midlands
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Conservative | 34 | |
Labour | 25 | |
Total | 59 |
Yorkshire and the Humber
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Labour | 33 | |
Conservative | 19 | |
Liberal Democrats | 2 | |
Total | 54 |
Wales
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Labour Party | 25 | |
Conservative Party | 11 | |
Plaid Cymru | 3 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1 | |
Total | 40 |
Scotland
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Scottish National Party | 56 | |
Labour | 1 | |
Conservative | 1 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1 | |
Total | 59 |
Northern Ireland
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
DUP | 8 | |
Sinn Féin | 4 | |
SDLP | 3 | |
UUP | 2 | |
Independent | 1 | |
Total | 18 |
References
- ^ "House of Commons 2010 seats per party". General Elections Online. House of Commons Library. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ^ "Election 2015: Results". BBC News: Politics. BBC. Retrieved 13 June 2015. Care has to be taken in interpreting the gains and losses shown by the BBC and other media outlets as they usually do not compare with the General Election in 2010.
- ^ a b "Election 2015: SNP wins 56 of 59 seats in Scots landslide". BBC News. BBC. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ^ "Election 2015: Best Welsh Tory election for 30 years". BBC News. BBC. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ^ Cowburn, Ashley (9 May 2015). "Liberal Democrat activists say leaders took them down a centrist blind alley". The Guardian. GMG. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Election results: Nick Clegg resigns after Lib Dem losses". BBC News. BBC. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ^ Henderson, Barney (8 May 2015). "LibDemDeposits: Liberal Democrats count costs of huge losses". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ^ "Rochester and Strood". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
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