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.

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