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Results of the 2015 election in Wales |
The 2015 United Kingdom general election in Wales was held on 7 May 2015 and all 40 seats in Wales were contested. [1] [2] The election for each seat was conducted on the basis of first-past-the-post.
Despite the Labour party winning the most votes in Wales, the Conservatives won across the UK. [3]
A full list of the results in Wales can be found in the House of Commons Library General Elections Online. [2] The following is an overall table of results for Wales by the BBC. [4]
Party | Seats | Votes | |||||||
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Total | Gains | Losses | Net +/- | % seats | Total | % | Change | ||
Labour | 25 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 62.5 | 552,473 | 36.9 | 0.6 | |
Conservative | 11 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 27.5 | 407,813 | 27.2 | 1.1 | |
UKIP | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 204,330 | 13.6 | 11.2 | ||
Plaid Cymru | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7.5 | 181,704 | 12.1 | 0.8 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2.5 | 97,783 | 6.5 | 13.6 | |
Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 38,344 | 2.6 | 2.1 | ||
Socialist Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3,481 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||
TUSC | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1,780 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||
Others | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 10,355 | 0.7 | 0.5 | ||
Total | 40 | 1,498,063 |
Election turnout statistics | source and comment | |
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Estimated total population of Wales | 3.1M | [5] data for 30 June 2015 |
Total eligible electorate | 2.281M | 1 [6] |
electorate as proportion of total population | 74% | |
Total valid votes | 1.498M | 1 [7] |
Mean turnout based on total valid votes | 65.67% | |
Mean as average of constituency results | 65.64% | |
Mean as above but based on ballot box turnout | 65.77% | 1 ballot box turnout includes rejected ballots [7] |
Median valid vote turnout | 65.0% | turnout midway between 20th and 21st constituency |
UK median valid vote turnout | 66.7% | [8] for comparison with above |
1 valid vote, count of rejected ballots and total electorate come from the source(s) given in 'Table of results by constituency' below.
1 The information on the winning party and the majority come from the source(s) indicated.
2 The total electorate comes from [2] unless another reference is given.
3 The MP is a Labour Co-op Party member [50] but he was nominated as 'Welsh Labour'. [51]
Date(s) conducted | Polling organisation/client | Sample size | Lead | |||||||
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16 April 2015 | Five-way Opposition Leaders' Debate held on BBC One | |||||||||
13–15 April 2015 | YouGov/ITV/Cardiff University | 1,143 | 12% | 40% | 26% | 6% | 13% | 4% | <0.5% | 14% |
2 April 2015 | Seven-way Leaders' Debate on ITV | |||||||||
26–31 Mar 2015 | YouGov/The Sun | 1,035 | 9% | 40% | 27% | 6% | 13% | 5% | 1% | 13% |
30 March 2015 | Dissolution of Parliament and the official start of the election campaign | |||||||||
24–27 Mar 2015 | YouGov/ITV Wales | 1,189 | 11% | 40% | 25% | 5% | 14% | 5% | 1% | 15% |
26 March 2015 | First TV election interview by Jeremy Paxman with David Cameron and Ed Miliband on Sky and Channel 4 | |||||||||
5–9 Mar 2015 | YouGov/ITV Wales | 1,279 | 10% | 39% | 25% | 5% | 14% | 6% | 1% | 14% |
19–21 Jan 2015 | YouGov/ITV Wales | 1,036 | 10% | 37% | 23% | 6% | 16% | 8% | 1% | 14% |
8–13 Jan 2015 | ICM/BBC Wales | 1,004 | 12% | 38% | 21% | 7% | 13% | 6% | 2% | 17% |
2–3 Dec 2014 | YouGov/ITV Wales | 1,131 | 11% | 36% | 23% | 5% | 18% | 5% | 2% | 13% |
19–22 Sep 2014 | ICM/BBC Wales | 1,006 | 13% | 39% | 23% | 5% | 16% | 2% | 1% | 16% |
8–11 Sep 2014 | YouGov/ITV Wales | 1,025 | 11% | 38% | 23% | 6% | 17% | 5% | 1% | 15% |
26 Jun–1 Jul 2014 | YouGov/ITV Wales | 1,035 | 11% | 41% | 25% | 5% | 14% | 3% | 2% | 16% |
22 May 2014 | 2014 European Parliament elections | |||||||||
12–14 May 2014 | YouGov/ITV Wales | 1,092 | 11% | 43% | 22% | 7% | 13% | 3% | 2% | 21% |
11–22 Apr 2014 | YouGov/University of Cardiff | 1,027 | 11% | 45% | 24% | 7% | 10% | 1% | 2% | 21% |
21–24 Feb 2014 | ICM/BBC Wales | 1,000 | 15% | 45% | 24% | 6% | 8% | 2% | 1% | 21% |
10–12 Feb 2014 | YouGov/ITV Wales | 1,250 | 11% | 47% | 22% | 7% | 9% | 2% | 2% | 25% |
2–4 Dec 2013 | YouGov/ITV Wales | 1,001 | 12% | 46% | 21% | 8% | 10% | 2% | 2% | 25% |
18–22 Jul 2013 | YouGov | 1,012 | 9% | 48% | 23% | 8% | 8% | 2% | 2% | 25% |
18–20 Feb 2013 | YouGov/ITV Wales | 1,007 | 10% | 51% | 22% | 9% | 7% | 1% | 1% | 29% |
2–4 Jul 2012 | YouGov/ITV Wales | 1,000 | 10% | 54% | 23% | 4% | 9% | 21% | ||
3 May 2012 | 2012 Welsh local elections | |||||||||
12–16 Apr 2012 | YouGov | 1,039 | 12% | 50% | 23% | 7% | 9% | 27% | ||
30 Jan–1 Feb 2012 | YouGov/ITV Wales | 1,008 | 11% | 50% | 25% | 6% | 5% | 3% | 2% | 25% |
5 May 2011 | 2011 Welsh Assembly election | |||||||||
2–4 May 2011 | YouGov/ITV Wales | 1,010 | 10% | 50% | 24% | 8% | 4% | 2% | 2% | 25% |
6 May 2010 | General election results | 1,466,690 | 11.3% | 36.2% | 26.1% | 20.1% | 2.4% | 0.4% | 3.4% | 10% |
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