2010 United Kingdom general election in Wales
These are the results of the 2010 United Kingdom general election in Wales. The election was held on 6 May 2010, and all 40 parliamentary seats in Wales were contested. 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.
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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. |
Despite the Labour party winning the most votes in Wales, the Conservatives won across the UK.[2]
Results
Party | Seats | Votes | |||||||
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Total | Gains | Losses | Net +/- | % seats | Total | % | Change | ||
Labour | 26 | 1 | 5 | ![]() |
65.0 | 531,601 | 36.2 | ![]() | |
Conservative | 8 | 5 | 0 | ![]() |
20.0 | 382,730 | 26.1 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | 3 | 0 | 1 | ![]() |
7.5 | 295,164 | 20.1 | ![]() | |
Plaid Cymru | 3 | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
7.5 | 165,394 | 11.3 | ![]() | |
UKIP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 35,690 | 2.4 | ![]() | |
BNP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 23,088 | 1.6 | ![]() | |
Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 6,293 | 0.4 | ![]() | |
Christian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1,947 | 0.1 | N/A | |
TUSC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 341 | 0.0 | N/A | |
Others | 0 | 0 | 1 | ![]() |
— | 24,442 | 1.7 | ![]() | |
Total | 40 | 1,466,690 | 64.9 |
References
- "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.
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