If the election results in no single party having a majority, then there is a hung parliament. If one party obtains a majority of seats, then that party is entitled to form the Government.
Each parliamentary constituency of the United Kingdom elects one MP to the House of Commons using the "first-past-the-post" system. In general elections, voting takes place in all parliamentary constituencies of the United Kingdom to elect members of parliament (MPs) to seats in the House of Commons, the dominant (historically termed the lower) house of Parliament. No other elections were scheduled to take place in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, apart from any local by-elections.Īll British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens over the age of 18 on the date of the election were permitted to vote. There were local elections on the same day in most of England, with the exception of Greater London.
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The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (as amended by the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013) led to the dissolution of the 55th Parliament on 30 March 2015 and the scheduling of the election on 7 May, the House of Commons not having voted for an earlier date. See also: Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 12.7 Party election spending investigations.
12.4 Daily Telegraph investigation of abuse of Wikipedia.11.2 General election records broken in 2015.9.4 Opinion polling inaccuracies and scrutiny.9.1 Predictions one month before the vote.4 Contesting political parties and candidates.It also saw one of the last public appearances of former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy who lost his seat in Ross, Skye and Lochaber to the Scottish Nationalist Ian Blackford before his death on 1 June. The Scottish National Party began its domination of Scotland's representation in Westminster (having already begun dominating Holyrood elections in the previous decade). The election is in retrospect considered to have begun a political realignment in the UK's electoral politics, marking the end of the traditional three-party domination seen for most of the previous century. In Northern Ireland, the Ulster Unionist Party returned to the Commons with two MPs after a five-year absence, while the Alliance Party lost its only seat despite an increase in total vote share. Labour's Miliband (as national leader) and Murphy (as Scottish leader) both resigned, as did Clegg for the Liberal Democrats. The Green Party won its highest-ever share of the vote with 3.8%, and retained its only seat. UKIP came third in terms of votes with 12.6%, but won only one seat, with party leader Nigel Farage failing to win the seat of South Thanet.
The Liberal Democrats, led by outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, had their worst result since their formation in 1988, losing all but eight of their 57 seats, with Cabinet ministers Vince Cable, Ed Davey and Danny Alexander losing their seats, although Clegg managed to retain his seat. The Scottish National Party, enjoying a surge in support after the 2014 Scottish independence referendum (which saw the majority of voters back Scotland to remain part of the United Kingdom), recorded a number of swings of over 30% from Labour, as it won all but three of the 59 Scottish seats to become the third-largest party in the Commons. Several senior Labour Shadow Cabinet members, notably Ed Balls, Douglas Alexander, and Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, were defeated. This was its lowest seat tally since the 1987 general election.
The Labour Party, led by Ed Miliband who had succeeded Gordon Brown following his resignation after the 2010 general election, saw a small increase in its share of the vote to 30.4%, but incurred a net loss of seats to return 232 MPs. Opinion polls were eventually proven to have underestimated the Conservative vote as the party, having governed in coalition with the Liberal Democrats since 2010, won 330 seats and 36.9% of the vote share, giving them a small overall majority of 12 seats (including the Speaker - ten seats without him) and their first outright win for 23 years. Polls and commentators had predicted the outcome would be too close to call and would result in a second consecutive hung parliament that would be either similar or more complicated than the 2010 election. Local elections took place in most areas on the same day. It was the first and only general election held at the end of a Parliament under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, to elect 650 members to the House of Commons. Composition of the House of Commons after the election
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