2015 General Election

7 May 2015 · The Brexit Realignment · 650 seats

Cameron won the majority the polls said was impossible as the Liberal Democrats collapsed from 57 seats to 8 and the SNP took 56 of Scotland's 59. The result triggered the EU referendum promised in the Conservative manifesto.

Prime Minister before

David Cameron

Conservative

Prime Minister (continued)

David Cameron

Conservative

Government formed

Conservative

majority of 11

Turnout

66.2%

electorate 46,354,197

The result

Conservative
David Cameron · 36.9%
330
seats
Labour
Ed Miliband · 30.4%
232
seats
SNP
Nicola Sturgeon · 4.7%
56
seats
Liberal Democrats
Nick Clegg · 7.9%
8
seats

24 further seats went to parties and independents outside the main contenders listed above.

Turnout by nation

England

66.0%

Wales

65.7%

Scotland

71.0%

N. Ireland

58.1%

United Kingdom

66.2%

The result by constituency

All 650 constituencies on the 2010-2017 boundaries, from the House of Commons Library dataset. Search, filter by country or region, and click any column heading to sort.

Highest turnout

81.9%

Dunbartonshire East, Scotland

Lowest turnout

51.3%

Stoke-On-Trent Central, West Midlands

Biggest single-party share

81.3%

Labour, Liverpool Walton

Tightest main-family margin

0.1 pts

City Of Chester, North West

South East
Conservative 50.8% · most votes in 78Liberal / Lib Dem 9.4%Labour 18.3% · most votes in 4Other 21.4% · most votes in 2
84
seats · turnout 68.6%
North West
Conservative 31.2% · most votes in 22Liberal / Lib Dem 6.5% · most votes in 2Labour 44.6% · most votes in 51Other 17.6%
75
seats · turnout 64.3%
London
Conservative 34.9% · most votes in 27Liberal / Lib Dem 7.7% · most votes in 1Labour 43.7% · most votes in 45Other 13.7%
73
seats · turnout 65.4%
Scotland
Conservative 14.9% · most votes in 1Liberal / Lib Dem 7.5% · most votes in 1Labour 24.3% · most votes in 1SNP / Plaid Cymru 50.0% · most votes in 56Other 3.3%
59
seats · turnout 71.0%
West Midlands
Conservative 41.8% · most votes in 34Liberal / Lib Dem 5.5%Labour 32.9% · most votes in 25Other 19.8%
59
seats · turnout 64.1%
East of England
Conservative 49.0% · most votes in 52Liberal / Lib Dem 8.2% · most votes in 1Labour 22.0% · most votes in 4Other 20.7% · most votes in 1
58
seats · turnout 67.5%
South West
Conservative 46.5% · most votes in 51Liberal / Lib Dem 15.1%Labour 17.7% · most votes in 4Other 20.6%
55
seats · turnout 69.5%
Yorkshire and the Humber
Conservative 32.6% · most votes in 19Liberal / Lib Dem 7.1% · most votes in 2Labour 39.1% · most votes in 33Other 21.1%
54
seats · turnout 63.3%
East Midlands
Conservative 43.5% · most votes in 32Liberal / Lib Dem 5.6%Labour 31.6% · most votes in 14Other 19.3%
46
seats · turnout 66.5%
Wales
Conservative 27.2% · most votes in 11Liberal / Lib Dem 6.5% · most votes in 1Labour 36.9% · most votes in 25SNP / Plaid Cymru 12.1% · most votes in 3Other 17.2%
40
seats · turnout 65.7%
North East
Conservative 25.3% · most votes in 3Liberal / Lib Dem 6.5%Labour 46.9% · most votes in 25Other 21.3% · most votes in 1
29
seats · turnout 61.8%
Northern Ireland
Conservative 1.3%Other 98.7% · most votes in 18
18
seats · turnout 58.1%
650 of 650 constituencies
Aberavon
Labour
48.9%
Aberconwy
Conservative
41.5%
Aberdeen North
SNP / Plaid Cymru
56.4%
Aberdeen South
SNP / Plaid Cymru
41.6%
Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine
SNP / Plaid Cymru
41.6%
Airdrie & Shotts
SNP / Plaid Cymru
53.9%
Aldershot
Conservative
50.6%
Aldridge-Brownhills
Conservative
52.0%
Altrincham & Sale West
Conservative
53.0%
Alyn & Deeside
Labour
40.0%
Amber Valley
Conservative
44.0%
Angus
SNP / Plaid Cymru
54.2%

The dataset groups candidates into five party families: Conservative (including Ulster Unionists before February 1974), the Liberal family (Liberal, SDP–Liberal Alliance, Liberal Democrats), Labour, SNP and Plaid Cymru, and all others combined. “Most votes” marks the family with the largest vote in each constituency, not necessarily the seat's winner: the Other column aggregates many parties.