The election was marked by no uniform national swing, with suburban and rural constituencies showing large swings from Labour to the Conservatives, but urban seats showing much smaller swings. Scotland recorded a small swing back to Labour.
Seats changing handsedit
The following table is a complete list of seats changing hands as a result of the election based on the notional results of the 2005 election, notwithstanding the results of by-elections to the 54th Parliament.[1]
The Conservatives gained more seats than at any other general election since their landslide result in 1931. Labour lost a total of 94 seats, the second most seats it had lost in a single election.
Due to Boundary Changes this seat was notionally Conservative, even though it was previously held by the Liberal Democrats, making it a Liberal Democrat gain.
Englandedit
Of the 533 seats in England, only 532 were contested on the day of the general election. Polling in Thirsk and Malton was delayed until 27 May due to the death of the UKIP candidate.[2] The Conservatives won an absolute majority of seats in England with 61 seats more than all other parties combined, and securing an average swing of 5.6% from Labour.[3]
Geographical representations of seats coloured by winning party can be misleading to the eye. Boundaries are drawn by number of electors not geography. This results in rural seats having a large area due to lower population density, while urban seats, with a high density of voters, are geographically quite small. A pure geographical representation of seats coloured by party can make parties with rural seats seem far more popular than urban ones. To counter this bias, the BBC published a map where each seat was an equal size hexagon.[4][5]
There were 40 seats contested in Wales. The number of Conservative seats rose from three to eight – the party gained one seat from the Liberal Democrats and four from Labour. Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru retained three MPs, including Arfon which the boundary changes had notionally given to Labour. Overall, Labour lost four seats but held on to its remaining 26.
There were 59 seats contested in Scotland. Every constituency in Scotland was won by the party that had won it at the 2005 election, with Labour regaining the two seats they lost in by-elections since 2005. There was a swing to Labour from the Conservatives of 0.8% (with Labour increasing its share of the vote by 2.5% and the Conservatives increasing by just 0.9%), this left the Conservatives with just a single MP representing a Scottish constituency.
There were 18 seats contested in Northern Ireland. Both Irish nationalist parties, Sinn Féin and SDLP, held their seats. The unionist parties, DUP and UUP (the latter contested the election as UCUNF—an electoral pact with the Conservatives), lost one seat each. The DUP lost Belfast East to the Alliance and in North Down the UUP's Sylvia Hermon left the party over the alliance with the Conservatives and retained her seat as an independent. This left the nationalist parties with eight seats, the unionist parties with eight seats (all DUP), the Alliance with one seat and an independent with one seat. It is the first time since the Partition of Ireland that unionist parties failed to secure a majority of Northern Ireland's Westminster seats in a general election. It was also the first time since Partition that a Nationalist party, Sinn Féin, topped the popular vote at a Westminster election, though winning three fewer seats than the DUP.
Sinn Féin, as an Irish republican party, refuse to take their seats at Westminster (see abstentionism). This leaves 645 MPs to take their seats at Westminster (after the Thirsk and Malton poll), reducing the effective threshold for a parliamentary majority from 326 to 323.[citation needed]
^Note: this figure excludes John Bercow (Buckingham), who is recorded by the BBC as a "Conservative", despite the fact he is the incumbent Speaker.
November 03, 2023
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This is the results breakdown of the 2010 United Kingdom general election 2010 United Kingdom general election 2005 6 May 2010 2010 05 06 2015 All 650 seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom326 seats needed for a majorityTurnout65 1 Party Leader Seats Conservative David Cameron 36 1 306 97Labour Gordon Brown 29 0 258 91Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg 23 0 57 5DUP Peter Robinson 0 6 8 1SNP Alex Salmond 1 7 6 0Sinn Fein Gerry Adams 0 6 5 0Plaid Cymru Ieuan Wyn Jones 0 6 3 1SDLP Margaret Ritchie 0 4 3 0Green Caroline Lucas 0 9 1 1Alliance David Ford 0 1 1 1Prime Minister before Prime Minister afterGordon BrownLabour David CameronConservative Contents 1 Swing 2 Seats changing hands 3 England 4 Wales 5 Scotland 6 Northern Ireland 7 ReferencesSwing editThe election was marked by no uniform national swing with suburban and rural constituencies showing large swings from Labour to the Conservatives but urban seats showing much smaller swings Scotland recorded a small swing back to Labour nbsp nbsp nbsp Seats changing hands editThe following table is a complete list of seats changing hands as a result of the election based on the notional results of the 2005 election notwithstanding the results of by elections to the 54th Parliament 1 The Conservatives gained more seats than at any other general election since their landslide result in 1931 Labour lost a total of 94 seats the second most seats it had lost in a single election Seat 2005 election 2010 electionAberconwy Labour Conservative gainAmber Valley Labour Conservative gainArfon Labour Plaid Cymru gainBattersea Labour Conservative gainBedford Labour Conservative gainBelfast East DUP Alliance gainBethnal Green and Bow Respect Labour gainBlaenau Gwent Blaenau Gwent PV Labour gainBlackpool North and Cleveleys Labour Conservative gainBradford East Labour Liberal Democrats gainBrent Central Labour Liberal Democrats gainBrentford and Isleworth Labour Conservative gainBrigg and Goole Labour Conservative gainBrighton Kemptown Labour Conservative gainBrighton Pavilion Labour Green gainBristol North West Labour Conservative gainBroxtowe Labour Conservative gainBuckingham Conservative Speaker gainBurnley Labour Liberal Democrats gainBurton Labour Conservative gainBury North Labour Conservative gainCalder Valley Labour Conservative gainCamborne and Redruth Liberal Democrats Conservative gainCannock Chase Labour Conservative gainCardiff North Labour Conservative gainCarlisle Labour Conservative gainCarmarthen West and Pembrokeshire South Labour Conservative gainCastle Point Independent Conservative gainChatham and Aylesford Labour Conservative gainChester Labour Conservative gainChesterfield Liberal Democrats Labour gainCleethorpes Labour Conservative gainColne Valley Labour Conservative gainCorby Labour Conservative gainCornwall South East Liberal Democrats Conservative gainCrawley Labour Conservative gainCrewe and Nantwich Labour Conservative gainCroydon Central Labour Conservative gainDartford Labour Conservative gainDerbyshire South Labour Conservative gainDewsbury Labour Conservative gainDorset South Labour Conservative gainDover Labour Conservative gainDudley South Labour Conservative gainEaling Central and Acton Labour Conservative gainEastbourne Conservative Liberal Democrats gainElmet and Rothwell Labour Conservative gainErewash Labour Conservative gainGillingham and Rainham Labour Conservative gainGlasgow North East Speaker Labour gainGloucester Labour Conservative gainGreat Yarmouth Labour Conservative gainHalesowen and Rowley Regis Labour Conservative gainHarlow Labour Conservative gainHarrogate and Knaresborough Liberal Democrats Conservative gainHarrow East Labour Conservative gainHastings Labour Conservative gainHendon Labour Conservative gainHereford and South Herefordshire Liberal Democrats Conservative gainHigh Peak Labour Conservative gainHove Labour Conservative gainIpswich Labour Conservative gainKeighley Labour Conservative gainKingswood Labour Conservative gainLancaster and Fleetwood Labour Conservative gainLeicestershire North West Labour Conservative gainLincoln Labour Conservative gainLoughborough Labour Conservative gainMilton Keynes North Labour Conservative gainMilton Keynes South Labour Conservative gainMontgomeryshire Liberal Democrats Conservative gainMorecambe and Lunesdale Labour Conservative gainNewton Abbot Liberal Democrats Conservative gainNorth Down Ulster Unionist Independent gainNorthampton North Labour Conservative gainNorthampton South Labour Conservative gainNorwich North Labour Conservative gainNorwich South Labour Liberal Democrats gainNuneaton Labour Conservative gainOxford West and Abingdon Liberal Democrats Conservative gainPendle Labour Conservative gainPlymouth Sutton and Devonport Labour Conservative gainPortsmouth North Labour Conservative gainPudsey Labour Conservative gainReading West Labour Conservative gainRedcar Labour Liberal Democrats gainRochdale notional gain Liberal Democrats Labour gainRichmond Park Liberal Democrats Conservative gainRomsey and Southampton North Liberal Democrats Conservative gainRossendale and Darwen Labour Conservative gainRugby Labour Conservative gainSherwood Labour Conservative gainSolihull notional gain Conservative Liberal Democrats gainSouth Basildon and East Thurrock Labour Conservative gainSouth Ribble Labour Conservative gainStafford Labour Conservative gainStevenage Labour Conservative gainStockton South Labour Conservative gainStourbridge Labour Conservative gainStroud Labour Conservative gainSwindon North Labour Conservative gainSwindon South Labour Conservative gainTamworth Labour Conservative gainThurrock Labour Conservative gainTruro and Falmouth Liberal Democrats Conservative gainVale of Glamorgan Labour Conservative gainWarrington South Labour Conservative gainWarwick and Leamington Labour Conservative gainWarwickshire North Labour Conservative gainWatford Labour Conservative gainWaveney Labour Conservative gainWeaver Vale Labour Conservative gainWells Conservative Liberal Democrats gainWinchester Liberal Democrats Conservative gainWolverhampton South West Labour Conservative gainWorcester Labour Conservative gainWyre Forest Health Concern Conservative gainYork Outer Liberal Democrats Conservative gainDue to Boundary Changes this seat was notionally Conservative even though it was previously held by the Liberal Democrats making it a Liberal Democrat gain England editOf the 533 seats in England only 532 were contested on the day of the general election Polling in Thirsk and Malton was delayed until 27 May due to the death of the UKIP candidate 2 The Conservatives won an absolute majority of seats in England with 61 seats more than all other parties combined and securing an average swing of 5 6 from Labour 3 Geographical representations of seats coloured by winning party can be misleading to the eye Boundaries are drawn by number of electors not geography This results in rural seats having a large area due to lower population density while urban seats with a high density of voters are geographically quite small A pure geographical representation of seats coloured by party can make parties with rural seats seem far more popular than urban ones To counter this bias the BBC published a map where each seat was an equal size hexagon 4 5 Party Seats Seatschange Votes changeConservative 297 6 92 9 908 169 39 5 3 8Labour 191 87 7 042 398 28 1 7 4Liberal Democrats 43 4 6 076 189 24 2 1 3Green 1 1 258 954 1 0 0 1Speaker 1 0 22 860 0 09Turnout 25 047 355 65 5Details of results are given below nbsp Northumberland nbsp Tyne and Wear nbsp Durham nbsp Cleveland nbsp Cumbria nbsp Lancashire nbsp North Yorkshire nbsp West Yorkshire nbsp South Yorkshire nbsp Humberside nbsp Merseyside nbsp Greater Manchester nbsp Cheshire nbsp Derbyshire nbsp Nottinghamshire nbsp Lincolnshire nbsp Shropshire nbsp Staffordshire nbsp West Midlands nbsp Warwickshire nbsp Leicestershire and Rutland nbsp Northamptonshire nbsp Herefordshire nbsp Worcestershire nbsp Gloucestershire nbsp Oxfordshire nbsp Buckinghamshire nbsp Bedfordshire nbsp Cambridgeshire nbsp Norfolk nbsp Suffolk nbsp Essex nbsp Hertfordshire nbsp Berkshire nbsp London nbsp Cornwall nbsp Devon nbsp Somerset nbsp Dorset nbsp Avon nbsp Wiltshire nbsp Hampshire nbsp Surrey nbsp West Sussex nbsp East Sussex nbsp KentWales editThere were 40 seats contested in Wales The number of Conservative seats rose from three to eight the party gained one seat from the Liberal Democrats and four from Labour Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru retained three MPs including Arfon which the boundary changes had notionally given to Labour Overall Labour lost four seats but held on to its remaining 26 Party Seats Seatschange Votes changeLabour 26 4 531 601 36 2 6 5Conservative 8 5 382 730 26 1 4 7Liberal Democrats 3 1 295 164 20 1 1 7Plaid Cymru 3 0 165 394 11 3 1 3Turnout 1 446 690 64 9 nbsp Scotland editThere were 59 seats contested in Scotland Every constituency in Scotland was won by the party that had won it at the 2005 election with Labour regaining the two seats they lost in by elections since 2005 There was a swing to Labour from the Conservatives of 0 8 with Labour increasing its share of the vote by 2 5 and the Conservatives increasing by just 0 9 this left the Conservatives with just a single MP representing a Scottish constituency For Scottish results in full see 2010 United Kingdom general election results in Scotland Party Seats Seatschange Votes changeLabour 41 0 1 035 528 42 0 2 5Liberal Democrats 11 0 465 471 18 9 3 7SNP 6 0 491 386 19 9 2 3Conservative 1 0 412 855 16 7 0 9Turnout 2 465 722 63 8 nbsp Northern Ireland editThere were 18 seats contested in Northern Ireland Both Irish nationalist parties Sinn Fein and SDLP held their seats The unionist parties DUP and UUP the latter contested the election as UCUNF an electoral pact with the Conservatives lost one seat each The DUP lost Belfast East to the Alliance and in North Down the UUP s Sylvia Hermon left the party over the alliance with the Conservatives and retained her seat as an independent This left the nationalist parties with eight seats the unionist parties with eight seats all DUP the Alliance with one seat and an independent with one seat It is the first time since the Partition of Ireland that unionist parties failed to secure a majority of Northern Ireland s Westminster seats in a general election It was also the first time since Partition that a Nationalist party Sinn Fein topped the popular vote at a Westminster election though winning three fewer seats than the DUP Sinn Fein as an Irish republican party refuse to take their seats at Westminster see abstentionism This leaves 645 MPs to take their seats at Westminster after the Thirsk and Malton poll reducing the effective threshold for a parliamentary majority from 326 to 323 citation needed Party Seats Seatschange Votes changeDUP 8 1 168 216 25 0 8 7Sinn Fein 5 0 171 942 25 5 1 2SDLP 3 0 110 970 16 5 1 0Alliance 1 1 42 762 6 3 2 4Independent Sylvia Hermon 1 1 21 181 3 1 UCU NF 0 1 102 361 15 2 2 6Turnout 673 871 57 6 7 8 nbsp References edit The Times Election 10 Gains and losses Archived 29 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine Tories triumph in Thirsk and Malton poll The Times London 28 May 2010 Retrieved 4 July 2010 Staff 7 May 2010 Election 2010 England BBC News BBC Retrieved 10 May 2010 BBC map with selectable geographic and proportional views BBC News Retrieved 11 June 2011 England results BBC News accessed 9 May 2010 Note this figure excludes John Bercow Buckingham who is recorded by the BBC as a Conservative despite the fact he is the incumbent Speaker Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Results breakdown of the 2010 United Kingdom general election amp oldid 1162797271, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
