330Conservative seats
36.8%Largest party’s vote share
66.2%Turnout
Election result
DATEPolling day7 May 2015
01Largest party by seatsConservative
02Seats won330
03Vote share36.8%
04Turnout66.2%
Government outcome
Conservative government · majority 11.
About this result
UK general elections are decided constituency by constituency using First Past the Post. Seat totals and national vote shares therefore measure different things.
Historical comparisons also need to allow for changes to constituency boundaries and the number of Commons seats.
Detailed results and source data
House of Commons Library: 2015 election data ↗ · Parliament: detailed 2015 results ↗
Seats won by party
PartySeats
Conservative330
Labour232
Liberal Democrats8
SNP / Plaid Cymru59
Other parties21
House of Commons Library summary grouping. For 1918–2019, SNP and Plaid Cymru are combined in the Library series and smaller parties are grouped as “Other parties”.