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The 2010 UK general election vote in Great Britain [132] [133] Social group Con Lab Lib Dem Others Lead Total vote 37: 30 24 19 7: Gender Male 38: 28 22 12 10: Female 36: 31 26 8 5: Age 18–24 30 31: 30 9 1: 25–34 35: 30 29 7 5: 35–44 34: 31 26 9 3: 45–54 34: 28 26 12 6: 55–64 38: 28 23 12 10: 65+ 44: 31 16 9 13: Men by age 18–24 29 ...
(See details of the elections in 1951 and February 1974) Since 1935 no party has achieved more than 50% of the popular vote in a British general election. The voting system favours parties with relatively concentrated support: a widely distributed vote leaves a party at risk of getting a large vote share but doing poorly in terms of numbers of ...
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.
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.
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.
In September 2010, Ed Miliband won a Labour Party leadership vote to succeed Gordon Brown as permanent Leader of the Opposition. In the House of Lords, Baroness Hayman (formerly a Labour member) resumed her role as Lord Speaker until the end of her five-year term in 2011, after which she did not seek re-election in the house.
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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.