Electoral history of David Cameron
Appearance
This is a summary of the electoral history of David Cameron, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016, and as Foreign Secretary in the Sunak ministry since 2023. He was also the member of parliament (MP) for Witney from 2001 to 2016.
Parliamentary elections
[edit]1997 general election, Stafford
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David Kidney | 24,606 | 47.5 | +12.6 | |
Conservative | David Cameron | 20,292 | 39.2 | –8.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Pam A. Hornby | 5,480 | 10.6 | –5.9 | |
Referendum | Stephen R. Culley | 1,146 | 2.2 | New | |
Monster Raving Loony | Ashton A.N. May | 248 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 4,314 | 8.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 51,772 | 76.6 | –6.3 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +10.7 |
2001 general election, Witney
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Cameron | 22,153 | 45.0 | +2.0 | |
Labour | Michael Bartlet | 14,180 | 28.8 | −1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gareth Epps | 10,000 | 20.3 | +0.4 | |
Green | Mark Stevenson | 1,100 | 2.2 | +1.1 | |
Independent | Barry Beadle | 1,003 | 2.0 | New | |
UKIP | Kenneth Dukes | 767 | 1.6 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 7,973 | 16.2 | +3.8 | ||
Turnout | 49,203 | 65.9 | −10.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.9 |
2005 general election, Witney
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Cameron | 26,571 | 49.3 | +4.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Liz Leffman | 12,415 | 23.0 | +2.7 | |
Labour | Tony Gray | 11,845 | 22.0 | −6.8 | |
Green | Richard Dossett-Davies | 1,682 | 3.2 | +1.0 | |
UKIP | Paul Wesson | 1,356 | 2.5 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 14,156 | 26.3 | +10.1 | ||
Turnout | 53,869 | 69.0 | +3.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.8 |
2010 general election, Witney
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Cameron | 33,973 | 58.8 | +9.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Dawn Barnes | 11,233 | 19.4 | −3.1 | |
Labour | Joe Goldberg | 7,511 | 13.0 | −9.4 | |
Green | Stuart MacDonald | 2,385 | 4.1 | +1.0 | |
UKIP | Nikolai Tolstoy | 2,001 | 3.5 | +0.9 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Howling Laud Hope | 234 | 0.3 | New | |
Independent | Paul Wesson | 166 | 0.3 | New | |
Independent | Johnnie Cook | 151 | 0.3 | New | |
Wessex Regionalist | Colin Bex | 62 | 0.1 | New | |
Independent | Aaron Barschak | 53 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 22,740 | 39.4 | +12.5 | ||
Turnout | 57,769 | 73.3 | +4.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +6.3 |
2015 general election, Witney
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Cameron | 35,201 | 60.2 | +1.4 | |
Labour | Duncan Enright | 10,046 | 17.2 | +4.2 | |
UKIP | Simon Strutt | 5,352 | 9.2 | +5.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andy Graham | 3,953 | 6.8 | −12.6 | |
Green | Stuart MacDonald | 2,970 | 5.1 | +1.0 | |
NHA | Clive Peedell | 616 | 1.1 | New | |
Wessex Regionalist | Colin Bex | 110 | 0.2 | +0.1 | |
Independent | Christopher Tompson | 94 | 0.2 | New | |
Reduce VAT in Sport | Vivien Saunders | 56 | 0.1 | New | |
Give Me Back Elmo | Bobby Smith | 37 | 0.1 | New | |
Land Party | Deek Jackson | 35 | 0.1 | New | |
Independent | Nathan Handley | 12 | 0.02 | New | |
Majority | 25,155 | 43.0 | +3.6 | ||
Turnout | 58,482 | 73.3 | 0.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.4 |
2005 Conservative Party leadership election
[edit]Candidate | First ballot: 18 October 2005 |
Second ballot: 20 October 2005 |
Members' vote | ||||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
David Cameron | 56 | 28.3 | 90 | 45.5 | 134,446 | 67.6 | |
David Davis | 62 | 31.3 | 57 | 28.8 | 64,398 | 32.4 | |
Liam Fox | 42 | 21.2 | 51 | 25.7 | Eliminated | ||
Kenneth Clarke | 38 | 19.2 | Eliminated | ||||
Turnout | 198 | 100 | 198 | 100 | 198,844 | 78.4[9][a] | |
David Cameron elected |
United Kingdom general elections
[edit]2010 general election
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Political party | Leader | Candidates | Votes | |||||||||||
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Nominated | Elected | Of total (%) | Gained | Lost | Net | Count | Proportion of total (%) |
Change in proportion (%) | ||||||
Conservative[table 1] | David Cameron | 631 | 306 | 47.1 | 100 | 3 | +97 | 10,703,754 | 36.1 | +3.7 | ||||
Labour | Gordon Brown | 631 | 258 | 39.7 | 3 | 94 | −91 | 8,609,527 | 29.0 | −6.2 | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Nick Clegg | 631 | 57 | 8.8 | 8 | 13 | −5 | 6,836,824 | 23.0 | +1.0 | ||||
UKIP | Lord Pearson | 558 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 919,546 | 3.1 | +0.9 | ||||
BNP | Nick Griffin | 338 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 564,331 | 1.9 | +1.2 | ||||
SNP | Alex Salmond | 59 | 6 | 0.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 491,386 | 1.7 | +0.1 | ||||
Green | Caroline Lucas | 310 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 265,247 | 0.9 | −0.2 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Gerry Adams | 17 | 5 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171,942 | 0.6 | −0.1 | ||||
DUP | Peter Robinson | 16 | 8 | 1.2 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 168,216 | 0.6 | −0.3 | ||||
Plaid Cymru | Ieuan Wyn Jones | 40 | 3 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 165,394 | 0.6 | −0.1 | ||||
SDLP | Margaret Ritchie | 18 | 3 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 110,970 | 0.4 | −0.1 | ||||
UCU-NF | Reg Empey | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 102,361 | 0.3 | −0.1 | ||||
English Democrat | Robin Tilbrook | 107 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 64,826 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||
Alliance | David Ford | 18 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 42,762 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||
Respect | Salma Yaqoob | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 33,251 | 0.1 | −0.1 | ||||
TUV | Jim Allister | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26,300 | 0.1 | — | ||||
Speaker | — | 1 | 1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22,860 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||
Independent – Rodney Connor | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21,300 | 0.1 | — | ||||
Independent – Sylvia Hermon | — | 1 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 21,181 | 0.1 | — | ||||
Christian | George Hargreaves | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18,623 | 0.1 | +0.1 | ||||
Scottish Green | Eleanor Scott and Patrick Harvie | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16,827 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||
Health Concern | Richard Taylor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 16,150 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||
Independent – Bob Spink | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12,174 | 0.0 | — | ||||
TUSC | Dave Nellist | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12,275 | 0.0 | — | ||||
National Front | Ian Edward | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10,784 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Buckinghamshire Campaign for Democracy | John Stevens | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10,331 | 0.0 | — | ||||
Monster Raving Loony | Howling Laud Hope | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7,510 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Socialist Labour | Arthur Scargill | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7,196 | 0.0 | −0.1 | ||||
Liberal | Rob Wheway | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6,781 | 0.0 | −0.1 | ||||
Blaenau Gwent PV | Dai Davies | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 6,458 | 0.0 | −0.1 | ||||
CPA | Alan Craig | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6,276 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Mebyon Kernow | Dick Cole | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,379 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Lincolnshire Independent | Marianne Overton | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,311 | 0.0 | — | ||||
Mansfield Independent Forum | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,339 | 0.0 | — | |||||
Green (NI) | Mark Bailey and Karly Greene | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,542 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Socialist Alternative | Peter Taaffe | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,298 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Trust | Stuart Wheeler | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,233 | 0.0 | — | ||||
Scottish Socialist | Colin Fox and Frances Curran | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,157 | 0.0 | −0.1 | ||||
People Before Profit | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,936 | 0.0 | — | ||||
Local Liberals People Before Politics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,964 | 0.0 | — | |||||
Independent – Esther Rantzen | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,872 | 0.0 | — | ||||
Alliance for Green Socialism | Mike Davies | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,581 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
SDP | Peter Johnson | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,551 | 0.0 | — | ||||
Pirate | Andrew Robinson | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,348 | 0.0 | — | ||||
Common Sense Party | Howard Thomas | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,173 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Staffordshire Independent Group | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,208 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||
Tendring First | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,078 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||
Solihull and Meriden Residents Association | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 977 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||
Communist | Robert Griffiths | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 947 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Democratic Labour | Brian Powell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 842 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
English Independence Party | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 803 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||
Democratic Nationalist Party | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 753 | 0.0 | — | |||||
Save King George Hospital | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 746 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||
Workers Revolutionary | Sheila Torrance | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 738 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Peace | John Morris | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 737 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Animal Protection | — | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 675 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Christian Movement for Great Britain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 598 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||
New Millennium Bean Party | Captain Beany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 558 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Total | 3,720 | 650 | 100 | 115 | 115 | 0 | 29,687,604 | Turnout: 65.1 |
- ^ This figure excludes John Bercow (Buckingham)
2015 general election
[edit]The following table shows final election results as reported by BBC News[11] and The Guardian.[12]
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Political party | Leader | MPs | Votes | |||||||||||
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Candidates[13] | Total | Gained | Lost | Net | Of total (%) | Total | Of total (%) | Change[c] (%) | ||||||
Conservative[d] | David Cameron | 647 | 330 | 35 | 11 | +24 | 50.8 | 11,299,609 | 36.8 | +0.7 | ||||
Labour | Ed Miliband | 631 | 232 | 22 | 48 | −26 | 35.7 | 9,347,273 | 30.4 | +1.5 | ||||
UKIP | Nigel Farage | 624 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 0.2 | 3,881,099 | 12.6 | +9.5 | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Nick Clegg | 631 | 8 | 0 | 49 | −49 | 1.2 | 2,415,916 | 7.9 | −15.1 | ||||
SNP | Nicola Sturgeon | 59 | 56 | 50 | 0 | +50 | 8.6 | 1,454,436 | 4.7 | +3.1 | ||||
Green Party of England and Wales | Natalie Bennett | 538 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 1,111,603 | 3.8 | +2.7 | ||||
DUP | Peter Robinson | 16 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.2 | 184,260 | 0.6 | 0.0 | ||||
Plaid Cymru | Leanne Wood | 40 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 181,704 | 0.6 | 0.0 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Gerry Adams | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 0.6 | 176,232 | 0.6 | 0.0 | ||||
UUP | Mike Nesbitt | 15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 0.3 | 114,935 | 0.4 | —[e] | ||||
Independent | — | 170 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 101,897 | 0.3 | — | ||||
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 99,809 | 0.3 | 0.0 | ||||
Alliance | David Ford | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 61,556 | 0.2 | +0.1 | ||||
Scottish Green | Patrick Harvie / Maggie Chapman | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39,205 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||
TUSC | Dave Nellist | 128 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36,490 | 0.1 | +0.1 | ||||
Speaker | John Bercow | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 34,617 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||
NHA[f] | Richard Taylor & Clive Peedell | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12,999 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||
TUV | Jim Allister | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16,538 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||
Respect | George Galloway | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9,989 | 0.0 | −0.1 | ||||
Green (NI) | Steven Agnew | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6,822 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
CISTA | Paul Birch | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6,566 | 0.0 | New | ||||
People Before Profit | Collective | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6,978 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Yorkshire First | Richard Carter | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6,811 | 0.0 | New | ||||
English Democrat | Robin Tilbrook | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6,531 | 0.0 | −0.2 | ||||
Mebyon Kernow | Dick Cole | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,675 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Lincolnshire Independent | Marianne Overton | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,407 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Liberal | Steve Radford | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,480 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Monster Raving Loony | Alan "Howling Laud" Hope | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,898 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Independent Save Withybush Save Lives | Chris Overton | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,729 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Socialist Labour | Arthur Scargill | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,481 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
CPA | Sidney Cordle | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,260 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Christian[g] | Jeff Green | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,205 | 0.0 | −0.1 | ||||
No description[h] | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,012 | 0.0 | — | |||||
Workers' Party | John Lowry | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,724 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
North East | Hilton Dawson | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,138 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Poole People | Mike Howell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,766 | 0.0 | New | ||||
BNP | Adam Walker | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,667 | 0.0 | −1.9 | ||||
Residents for Uttlesford | John Lodge | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,658 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Rochdale First Party | Farooq Ahmed | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,535 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Communist | Robert David Griffiths | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,229 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Pirate | Laurence Kaye | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,130 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
National Front | Kevin Bryan | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,114 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Communities United | Kamran Malik | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,102 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Reality | Mark "Bez" Berry | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,029 | 0.0 | New | ||||
The Southport Party | David Cobham | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 992 | 0.0 | New | ||||
All People's Party | Prem Goyal | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 981 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Peace | John Morris | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 957 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Bournemouth Independent Alliance | David Ross | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 903 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Socialist (GB) | Collective | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 899 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Scottish Socialist | Executive Committee | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 875 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Alliance for Green Socialism | Mike Davies | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 852 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Your Vote Could Save Our Hospital | Sandra Allison | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 849 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Wigan Independents | Gareth Fairhurst | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 768 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Animal Welfare | Vanessa Hudson | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 736 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Something New | James Smith | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 695 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Consensus | Helen Tyrer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 637 | 0.0 | New | ||||
National Liberal | National Council | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 627 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Independents Against Social Injustice | Steve Walmsley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 603 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Independence from Europe | Mike Nattrass | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 578 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Whig | Waleed Ghani | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 561 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Guildford Greenbelt Group | Susan Parker | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 538 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Class War | Ian Bone | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 526 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Above and Beyond | Mark Flanagan | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 522 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Northern | Mark Dawson | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 506 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Workers Revolutionary | Sheila Torrance | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 488 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
Left Unity | Kate Hudson | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 455 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Liberty GB | Paul Weston | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 418 | 0.0 | New | ||||
People First | Collective | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 407 | 0.0 | New | ||||
Other parties[i] | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65,537 | 0.0 | — | |||||
Total | 3,921 | 650 | 30,697,525 |
- ^ Turnout of 198,884 out of a membership of 253,600
- ^ 66 parties are grouped together as 'other parties'. None of those parties contested more than 2 constituencies, or gained more than 300 votes
- ^ This column shows the change in vote share percentage from the 2010 general election to the 2015 general election. It does not account for by-elections.
- ^ BBC News includes the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, in the MP tally and the vote tally for the Conservatives. See About these results, BBC News (30 April 2015). In this table, however, the speaker (who usually does not vote in the Commons) is listed separately, and has been removed from the Conservative tally.
- ^ The UUP did not run itself in 2010; instead, it ran candidates under the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists banner.
- ^ BBC News lists the National Health Action Party together with Independent Community and Health Concern (formerly known as Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern), which is affiliated with the larger party, for a total of 20,210 votes. The Guardian lists each party separately. Health Concern received 7,211 of the votes attributed to the National Health Action Party.
- ^ The BBC groups together the votes under the Scottish Christian Party (1,467 votes); Christian Party (1,040 votes); and Christian (698 votes) labels, for a total of 3,205 votes. The Guardian lists these designations separately.
- ^ Candidates who do not specify a party or Independent are categorised as No description
- ^ 66 parties, none of which contested more than 2 constituencies, each with under 300 votes
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