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The 2010 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 May 2010, to elect 650 [n 2] Members of Parliament (or MPs) to the House of Commons.The first to be held after the minimum age for candidates was reduced from 21 to 18, it resulted in the Labour government losing its 66-seat majority to the Conservative opposition; however, with the Conservatives only having 306 elected MPs, this ...
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 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 ...
British unemployment claims rose by the most in eight months in September as the economic recovery slowed. Jobless benefits claims rose by 5,300 to 1.47 million, Bloomberg News reported.
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The election took place on 6 May 2010, coinciding with the local elections. The previous general election was held on 5 May 2005. Tony Blair stood down as prime minister after 10 years in June 2007, and was succeeded by chancellor Gordon Brown. That autumn, the national media reported that an imminent general election was likely, putting all ...
The unemployment rate fell from 10 percent to 9.7 percent, the manufacturing industry added 11,000 jobs in January -- which is the first monthly increase since November 2007 -- and the number of ...
The debates are the first such debates to be broadcast live in the run-up to a UK general election. [ 31 ] 15–16 April – An opinion poll puts the Labour Party at 28%, behind both the Conservatives on 33% and the Liberal Democrats on 30%, the first time since 1986 that a governing party has slipped into third place in an opinion poll.