United Kingdom general election, 2010 (England)

United Kingdom general election, 2010^[1]

6 May 2010 (2010-05-06)

All 533 English seats to the House of Commons

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	David Cameron	Gordon Brown	Nick Clegg
Party	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrat
Leader since	6 December 2005	24 June 2007	18 December 2007
Last election	198 Seats	285 Seats	47 Seats
Seats before	205	280	47
Seats won	298	191	43
Seat change	93	89	4
Popular vote	9,931,029	7,042,398	6,076,189
Percentage	39.6%	28.1%	24.2%
Swing	3.9%	7.4%	1.3%

	Fourth party

Leader	Caroline Lucas
Party	Green
Leader since	5 September 2008
Last election	0 Seats
Seats before	0
Seats won	1
Seat change	1
Popular vote	258,954
Percentage	1.0%
Swing	0.1%

Colours on map indicate winning party for each constituency.

Prime Minister before election

Gordon Brown
Labour

Subsequent Prime Minister

David Cameron
Conservative

These are the English results of the United Kingdom general election, 2010. The election was held on 6 May 2010 and all 533 seats in England were contested. The Conservative Party (UK) achieved a complete majority of English seats however fared less well in Scotland and Wales, so a coalition UK government was subsequently formed between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.

Results Table

Party		Seats	Seats change	Votes	%	% change
	Conservative	298	+92	9,931,029	39.6	+3.9
	Labour	191	-87	7,042,398	28.1	-7.4
	Liberal Democrat	43	-4	6,076,189	24.2	+1.3
	UKIP	0	0	866,633	3.5	+0.9
	BNP	0	0	532,333	2.1	+1.3
	Green	1	+1	258,954	1.0	-0.1
	English Democrat	0	0	64,826	0.3	+0.2
	Respect	0	-1	33,251	0.1	-0.2
	Health Concern	0	-1	16,150	0.1
	Christian	0	0	15,841	0.1
	National Front	0	0	10,400	0.0
	TUSC	0	0	8,404	0.0
	Socialist Labour	0	0	4,368	0.0
		Others	0	0	224,341	0.9
Turnout:				25,085,097	65.5	+4.5

Votes summary

Popular vote

Conservative			39.60%
Labour			28.10%
Liberal Democrats			24.20%
UKIP			3.50%
BNP			2.10%
Greens			1.00%
Other			1.50%

Parliament seats

Conservative			55.91%
Labour			35.83%
Liberal Democrats			8.07%
Greens			0.19%

References

↑ Election 2010 United Kingdom - National Results BBC News

United Kingdom general election, 2010

Boundary changes Constituencies Debates MPs elected MPs who stood down Newspaper endorsements Opinion polling Parties Results breakdown Results by constituency MPs by seniority Post-election events

Incumbent Prime Minister: Gordon Brown (Labour) Subsequent Prime Minister: David Cameron (Conservative)

Parties elected to the House of Commons	Conservative (David Cameron) Labour (Gordon Brown) Liberal Democrats (Nick Clegg) Democratic Unionist Party (Peter Robinson) Scottish National Party (Alex Salmond) Sinn Féin (Gerry Adams) Plaid Cymru (Ieuan Wyn Jones) Social Democratic and Labour Party (Margaret Ritchie) Green Party of England and Wales (Caroline Lucas) Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (David Ford) Independent (Sylvia Hermon)

Parties represented in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, London, or the EU	British National Party (Nick Griffin) Green Party in Northern Ireland (Mark Bailey / Karly Greene) Progressive Unionist Party (Dawn Purvis) Scottish Green Party (Eleanor Scott / Patrick Harvie) Ulster Unionist Party (Sir Reg Empey) United Kingdom Independence Party (Lord Pearson)

Results by area	Northern Ireland Scotland Edinburgh Glasgow Wales England Birmingham Bristol Cornwall East Sussex Lancashire London Greater Manchester Merseyside Oxfordshire Surrey Wiltshire

United Kingdom local elections, 2010

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