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A general election was held in the United Kingdom on 6 May 2010 and all 59 seats in Scotland were contested. The election result in Scotland was unusual in that there wasn't any change of seats from the 2005 general election, although the Labour Party took back two seats that it had lost in by-elections. This was the last general election at ...
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 ...
Constituency Cnty Rgn Last elctn Winning party Turnout [a]Votes Party Votes Share Majrty Con [b] Lab [c] LD UKIP BNP SNP Grn [d] SF DUP PC SDLP UCU Other [e] Total Aberavon: WGM: WLS
On 6 April 2010, the prime minister, Gordon Brown, visited Buckingham Palace for a meeting with the Queen to ask permission to dissolve Parliament on 12 April, confirming in a live press conference in Downing Street, as had long been speculated, that the election would be held on 6 May, [7] five years since the previous election on 5 May 2005.
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2010: 2010 United Kingdom general election: Labour won 41 out of 59 Scottish seats and received over 1 million votes across Scotland, despite losing 91 seats across the UK as a whole. 2011: In the 2011 Scottish Parliament election , the SNP become the first party to win an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament.
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