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UK General Election 2015

UK 2015 General Election – Key Statistics

Turnout

The turnout in this general election was 66.1% out of an electorate of 46,425,386 people.

 Political Party  Seats Gain Loss +/- Number of Votes
 Conservatives  331  35  11  + 24%  11,334,520
 Labour  232  22  48  – 26%  9,347,326
 Scottish National Party  56  50 0  + 50%  1,454,436
 Liberal Democrats  8  0  49  – 49%  2,415,888
 DUP  8  1  1  1  184,260
 Sinn Fein  4  0  1  1  176,232
 Plaid Cymru  3  0  0  0  181,694
 UKIP  1  0  1  0  3,881,129
 Greens  1  0  0  0  1,157,613

UK Share of the Vote

Political Party 

 

 %
Conservatives  36.9
Labour  30.4
UK Independence Party  12.6
Liberal Democrats  7.9
Scottish National Party  4.7
Green  3.8

UK Share of the Vote: Change since 2010

                   -%                     +%
 UK Independence Party  + 9.5
 Scottish National Party + 3.1
 Labour Party + 1.5
 Conservatives + 0.8
 – 15.2 Liberal Democrats

– 15.2 Liberal Democrats