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The 2010 general election takes place, resulting in a hung parliament. The Conservative Party win 306 of the 649 seats contested, placing them 20 seats short of an overall majority in the House of Commons. The Labour Party win 258 seats, the Liberal Democrats win 57, and other parties win 28.
2010s political history refers to significant political and societal historical events in the United Kingdom in the 2010s, presented as a historical overview in narrative format. There were four Prime Ministers during this time ( Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson ). However, Brown and Johnson were collectively in power for less than a year of this ...
6 May –. The 2010 General Election takes place. Though the Conservative Party wins a majority of seats in England, winning 298 of the 533 contested, [10] the result over the whole of the UK is a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party 20 seats short of an overall majority in the House of Commons. [11]
MPs. The 2010 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 May 2010, with 45,597,461 registered voters [1] entitled to vote to elect members to the House of Commons. The election took place in 650 constituencies [note 2] across the United Kingdom under the first-past-the-post system. The election resulted in a large swing to the ...
The events surrounding the formation of the United Kingdom's government in 2010 took place between 7 May and 12 May 2010, following the 2010 general election, which failed to produce an overall majority for either of the country's two main political parties. The election, held on 6 May, resulted in the first hung parliament in the UK in 36 ...
These are the results of the 2010 United Kingdom general election in England.The election was held on 6 May 2010 and all 533 seats in England were contested. The Conservative Party achieved a complete majority of English seats, but fared less well in Scotland and Wales, so a coalition government was subsequently formed between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
The UK population rose by 470,000 between 2009 and 2010, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics – the biggest increase in nearly 50 years. Publications. Julian Barnes' novel The Sense of an Ending; Roger Hargreaves' children's book Little Miss Princess celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Mr. Men series. Deaths
The 2010 United Kingdom student protests were a series of demonstrations in November and December 2010 that took place in several areas of the country, with the focal point of protests being in central London. Largely student-led, the protests were held in opposition to planned spending cuts to further education and an increase of the cap on ...