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The previous two general elections had both been held at four-year intervals, but there would be no general election in 2009. On 6 April 2010, Brown called a general election for 6 May – with the opinion polls still showing a Conservative lead, although most of the polls showed that a Conservative majority was unlikely, suggesting that Labour ...
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.
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.
There are 573 seats in England and Wales; the Labour Party, Conservative Party and Liberal Democrats contested every seat, except in the constituency of the Speaker.The UK Independence Party, Green Party of England and Wales and British National Party also contested a large number of seats, while Plaid Cymru stood in every seat in Wales.
It's an axiom of current political analysis that Independent voters have become an increasingly important, influential and powerful voting bloc. That this power is fueled by dissatisfaction ...
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.
These are the results of the 2010 United Kingdom general election in England.The election was held on 6 May 2010 and all 533 seats in England were contested. The Conservative Party achieved a complete majority of English seats, but fared less well in Scotland and Wales, so a coalition government was subsequently formed between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.