Results for a UK general election on 6 May 2010 Map

A general election to the 55th Parliament of the United Kingdom with an electorate of 45,597,461, having 29,687,604 valid votes and 81,879 invalid votes.

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This was the first election on a new set of constituency boundaries in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. The calculation of whether a party held or gained a seat in those countries is based on notional results, which estimate the outcome of the previous election had it been contested on the new boundaries.