BRIEFING PAPER Number CBP7186, 28 July 2015 By Oliver Hawkins General Election 2015 Richard Keen Nambassa Nakatudde Inside: 1. Introduction 2. Countries and regions 3. Parties 4. Seats changing hands 5. Who voted for which party? 6. Candidates 7. Characteristics of those elected 8. The electorate, turnout and invalid votes 9. Safe and marginal seats 10. MPs who did not stand for re-election 11. Incumbent MPs who were defeated 12. New MPs 13. By-elections and changes of allegiance 2010-15 14. Polling day 15. Opinion polls 16. Constituencies www.parliament.uk/commons-library | intranet.parliament.uk/commons-library |
[email protected] | @commonslibrary 2 Number CBP7186, 28 July 2015 Contents Summary 4 General Election 2015 seat winners map 5 General Election 2015 seat winners in equal sized constituencies 6 1. Introduction 7 2. Countries and regions 11 2.1 United Kingdom 11 2.2 Great Britain 12 2.3 England 13 2.4 Scotland 14 2.5 Wales 15 2.6 Northern Ireland 16 2.7 North East 17 2.8 North West 18 2.9 Yorkshire and the Humber 19 2.10 East Midlands 20 2.11 West Midlands 21 2.12 East of England 22 2.13 London 23 2.14 South East 24 2.15 South West 25 3. Parties 26 3.1 Conservative 26 3.2 Labour 28 3.3 Scottish National Party 30 3.4 Liberal Democrats 32 3.5 Plaid Cymru 34 3.6 United Kingdom Independence Party 36 3.7 Green Party 38 3.8 DUP and Sinn Féin 40 3.9 SDLP and UUP 41 4.