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.

2010 United Kingdom general election in Wales

6 May 2010 (2010-05-06)
All 40 Welsh seats to the House of Commons
First party Second party   Leader Gordon Brown David Cameron Party Labour Conservative Leader since 24 June 2007 6 December 2005 Last election 29 seats, 42.7% 3 seats, 21.4% Seats before 30† 3† Seats won 26 8 Seat change 4* 5* Popular vote 531,601 382,730 Percentage 36.2% 26.1% Swing 6.5% 4.7%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Nick Clegg Ieuan Wyn Jones Party Liberal Democrats Plaid Cymru Leader since 18 December 2007 3 August 2000 Last election 4 seats, 18.4% 3 seats, 12.6% Seats before 4† 2† Seats won 3 3 Seat change 1* 1* Popular vote 295,164 165,394 Percentage 20.1% 11.3% Swing 1.7% 1.3%
Colours on map indicate winning party for each constituency †Notional 2005 results on new boundaries. *Owing to electoral boundaries changing, this figure is notional.

Main article: 2010 United Kingdom general election

Despite the Labour party winning the most votes in Wales, the Conservatives won across the UK.

Results

Party		Seats					Votes
		Total	Gains	Losses	Net +/-	% seats	Total	%	Change
	Labour	26	1	5	4	65.0	531,601	36.2	6.5
	Conservative	8	5	0	5	20.0	382,730	26.1	4.7
	Liberal Democrats	3	0	1	1	7.5	295,164	20.1	1.7
	Plaid Cymru	3	1	0	1	7.5	165,394	11.3	1.3
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	—	35,690	2.4	1.0
	BNP	0	0	0	0	—	23,088	1.6	1.5
	Green	0	0	0	0	—	6,293	0.4	0.1
	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	1	—	24,442	1.7	1.1
Total		40					1,466,690		64.9