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. 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
+PartySeatsAggregate Votes Total Gains LossesNet Of all (%)Total Of all (%)Difference 26 1 5 4 65.0 531,601 36.2 6.5 8 5 0 5 20.0 382,730 26.1 4.7 3 0 1 1 7.5 295,164 20.1 1.7 3 1 0 1 7.5 165,394 11.3 1.3 0 0 0 — 35,690 2.4 1.0 0 0 0 — 23,088 1.6 1.5 0 0 0 — 6,293 0.4 0.1 0 colspan="3" — 1,947 0.1 0 colspan="3" — 341 0.0 Others 0 0 1 1 — 24,442 1.7 1.1 Total 40 1,466,690 64.8 2.2
See also 2010 United Kingdom general election in England 2010 United Kingdom general election in Scotland 2010 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (2010–2015)
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