The following table shows final election results as reported by BBC News[1] and The Guardian.[2]
Political party | Leader | MPs | Votes | |||||||||||
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Candidates[3] | Total | Gained | Lost | Net | Of total (%) | Total | Of total (%) | Change[b] (%) | ||||||
Conservative[c] | 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 | —[d] | ||||
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[e] | 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[f] | Jeff Green | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,205 | 0.0 | −0.1 | ||||
No description[g] | — | 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[h] | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65,537 | 0.0 | — | |||||
Total | 3,921 | 650 | 30,697,525 |
- ^ 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
- ^ "Election 2015 - Results". BBC News.
- ^ Osborn, Matt; Clarke, Sean; Franklin, Will; Straumann, Ralph. "UK 2015 general election results in full". The Guardian.
- ^ "Number of known 2015 candidates per party". Your Next MP. Retrieved 12 May 2015.