This is the results breakdown of the 2015 United Kingdom general election.

Swing

The shares of votes of each party changed as follows:

+ Change in vote share by party Party 2010% 2015% ∆%Conservative Party 36.1 36.8 +0.7 Labour Party 29.0 30.5 +1.5 Scottish National Party 1.7 4.7 +3.0 Liberal Democrats 23.0 7.9 −15.1 Green Party 0.9 3.8 +2.9 UK Independence Party 3.1 12.7 +9.6 Other6.2 3.6 −2.6 Totals 100.0 100.0 –

The following table is a list of seats changing hands as a result of the election based on the results of the 2015 election compared to the General Election held in May 2010, and so notwithstanding the results of by-elections to the 55th Parliament.

The Conservative Party became the first party in government since the 1983 general election to increase the number of seats they held at a general election. In total they gained 24 seats to win an overall majority of 12. Care has to be taken in interpreting the gains and losses shown by the BBC and other media outlets as they usually do not compare with the General Election in 2010. They gained six seats from Labour in England and two in Wales, while also winning 16 seats from their former coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats.

The Labour Party had a net loss of 26 seats, see table below. Although they did gain twelve seats in England from the Conservatives (eight of them in London) and 23 from the Liberal Democrats, they suffered their worst defeat in Scotland in the age of universal suffrage, losing forty of their forty-one seats to the Scottish National Party (SNP). They also had a net loss of one seat in Wales. Ed Miliband immediately resigned as leader, handing over temporarily to deputy leader Harriet Harman.

The SNP enjoyed their best election result, gaining forty seats from Labour and ten from the Liberal Democrats to hold 56 of Scotland's 59 constituencies. The other parties held one seat each.

The Liberal Democrats had been part of a coalition government with the Conservatives prior to the election with 57 seats in parliament. However, they held just eight seats, their worst election result since the old Liberal Party secured six seats in 1970. Of the five Liberal Democrat cabinet ministers, three lost their seats. They also lost 338 deposits. As a result, Nick Clegg, although he was one of the two surviving ministers, resigned as leader.

The Green Party and UK Independence Party (UKIP) each held one seat: UKIP, however, failed to defend Rochester and Strood, which it had won in a by-election in 2014.

Seats changing hands

+Seats changing hands at May 2015 General Election relative to May 2010 Seat 2010 election 2015 election Aberdeen North gain Aberdeen South gain West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine gain Airdrie and Shotts gain Argyll and Bute gain Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock gain Bath gain Belfast East gain Bermondsey and Old Southwark gain Berwick-upon-Tweed gain Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk gain Birmingham, Yardley gain Bolton West gain Bradford East gain Brecon and Radnorshire gain Brent Central gain Brentford and Isleworth gain Bristol West gain Burnley gain Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross gain Cambridge gain Cardiff Central gain Central Ayrshire gain Cheadle gain Cheltenham gain Chippenham gain City of Chester gain Clacton gain Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill gain Colchester gain Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East gain Derby North gain Dewsbury gain Dumfries and Galloway gain Dundee West gain Dunfermline and West Fife gain Ealing Central and Acton gain East Dunbartonshire gain East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow gain East Lothian gain East Renfrewshire gain Eastbourne gain Eastleigh gain Edinburgh East gain Edinburgh North and Leith gain Edinburgh South West gain Edinburgh West gain Enfield North gain Falkirk gain Fermanagh and South Tyrone gain Glasgow Central gain Glasgow East gain Glasgow North gain Glasgow North East gain Glasgow North West gain Glasgow South gain Glasgow South West gain Glenrothes gain Gordon gain Gower gain Hazel Grove gain Hornsey and Wood Green gain Hove gain Ilford North gain Inverclyde gain Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey gain Kilmarnock and Loudoun gain Kingston and Surbiton gain Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath gain Lanark and Hamilton East gain Lancaster and Fleetwood gain Lewes gain Linlithgow and East Falkirk gain Livingston gain Manchester Withington gain Mid Dorset and North Poole gain Midlothian gain Morley and Outwood gain Motherwell and Wishaw gain North Ayrshire and Arran gain North Cornwall gain North Devon gain North East Fife gain Norwich South gain Ochil and Perthshire South gain Paisley and Renfrewshire North gain Paisley and Renfrewshire South gain Plymouth Moorview gain Portsmouth South gain Redcar gain Ross, Skye and Lochaber gain Rutherglen and Hamilton West gain St Austell and Newquay gain St Ives gain Solihull gain Somerton and Frome gain South Antrim gain Southampton Itchen gain Stirling gain Sutton and Cheam gain Taunton Deane gain Telford gain Thornbury and Yate gain Torbay gain Twickenham gain Vale of Clwyd gain Wells gain West Dunbartonshire gain Wirral West gain Wolverhampton South West gain Yeovil gain

England

Affiliation Members Conservative Party318 Labour Party206 Liberal Democrats6 UK Independence Party1 Green Party1 Speaker1  Total 533

East of England Affiliation Members Conservative52 Labour4 Liberal Democrats1 UKIP1  Total 58

East Midlands Affiliation Members Conservative32 Labour14  Total 46

London Affiliation Members Labour45 Conservative27 Liberal Democrats1  Total 73

North East Affiliation Members Labour26 Conservative3  Total 29

North West Affiliation Members Labour51 Conservative22 Liberal Democrats2  Total 75

South East Affiliation Members Conservative78 Labour4 Green1 Speaker1  Total 84

South West Affiliation Members Conservative51 Labour4  Total 55

West Midlands Affiliation Members Conservative34 Labour25  Total 59

Yorkshire and the Humber Affiliation Members Labour33 Conservative19 Liberal Democrats2  Total 54

Wales

Affiliation Members Labour Party25 Conservative Party11 Plaid Cymru3 Liberal Democrats1  Total 40

Scotland

Affiliation Members Scottish National Party56 Labour1 Conservative1 Liberal Democrats1  Total 59

Northern Ireland

Affiliation Members DUP8 Sinn Féin4 SDLP3 UUP2 Independent1  Total 18

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