2010 United Kingdom general election in Wales
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6 May 2010
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| Turnout | 64.8% ( 2.2 pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Colours on map indicate winning party for each constituency †Notional 2005 results on new boundaries. *Owing to electoral boundaries changing, this figure is notional. |
On Thursday 6 May 2010, the 2010 United Kingdom general election was held in Wales, to elect all 650 members of the House of Commons, with 40 constituencies being in Wales.
The Labour Party remained the party with the most seats in Wales, however it suffered a net loss of 4 seats and its share of the vote dropped by 6.5%. The Conservatives increased their number of seats by 5 and the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru saw little change both in the number of seats and share of the vote.
Despite the Labour party winning the most votes in Wales, the Conservatives won across the UK.[2] Also, by the share of the vote, the Labour Party got their worst result since 1918 (in 1918 election the Labour Party didn't have candidates in all Welsh constituencies).
Results
[edit]| Party[3] | Seats | Aggregate Votes | |||||||
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| Total | Gains | Losses | Net | Of all (%) | Total | Of all (%) | Difference | ||
| Labour | 26 | 1 | 5 |  4 | 65.0 | 531,601 | 36.2 | 6.5 | |
| Conservative | 8 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 20.0 | 382,730 | 26.1 | 4.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7.5 | 295,164 | 20.1 | 1.7 | |
| Plaid Cymru | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7.5 | 165,394 | 11.3 | 1.3 | |
| UKIP | 0 | 0 | 0 |  | — | 35,690 | 2.4 | 1.0 | |
| BNP | 0 | 0 | 0 | | — | 23,088 | 1.6 | 1.5 | |
| Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | | — | 6,293 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
| Christian | 0 | New | — | 1,947 | 0.1 | New | |||
| TUSC | 0 | New | — | 341 | 0.0 | New | |||
| Others | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | 24,442 | 1.7 | 1.1 | |
| Total | 40 | 1,466,690 | 64.8[4] | 2.2 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Election 2010 | Results | Wales". BBC News. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- ↑ "UK Election Statistics: 1918-2022, A Long Century of Elections" (PDF). House of Commons Library. p. 22.
- ↑ Cracknell, Richard; Uberoi, Elise; Burton, Matthew (9 August 2023). "UK Election Statistics: 1918-2023, A Century of Elections" (PDF). House of Commons Library. pp. 22–23. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
- ↑ Cracknell, Richard; Uberoi, Elise; Burton, Matthew (9 August 2023). "UK Election Statistics: 1918-2023, A Century of Elections" (PDF). House of Commons Library. p. 29. Retrieved 8 August 2026.
