Talk:Results breakdown of the 2015 United Kingdom general election
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[edit]I have created this new article and I've kept the format similar to the 2010 page but we just one exception I think it would be easier when it comes to dealing with England if it was done via the regions as opposed to the English counties to keep some consistency. Thanks. (MOTORAL1987 (talk) 10:04, 13 May 2015 (UTC))
Seats changing hands table
[edit]I have removed a table at the top of the section on seats changing hands. It is not at all clear what it was trying to convey. Take for instance, the Conservative row. When subtracting the 2015 value from the 2010 value, you get 24. But the numbers between do not balance to 24. The value in the Lab column reflects the eight gains from Labour, but not the 10 losses. If the losses to Labour are not to be reflected in the row, then what is the point of showing the total seats before and after? Also, if the losses to Labour are not to be reflected, why is the loss to UKIP shown? Apparently gross gains are shown, unless there are no gains, in which cases losses (if any) are listed. There is no obvious value in that.
Another problem is the totals row at the bottom. The actual seat gains and losses are shown, but they do not reflect the numbers in the columns above them. Taking, again, the Conservatives: The column reflects the loss of ten seats to Labour, gain of 27 from the Lib Dems, and loss of one to UKIP. Those numbers would give a total of 16 gained. If the numbers in the column are not meant to be totalled, why do so? Incidentally, the signs are reversed for the row as well. The Conservatives are shown as (24), which is how negative numbers are written, including in the rest of the table. -Rrius (talk) 20:39, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Table at issue
[edit]The following table gives the total number of gains and losses across the UK, ordered by the final number of seats and then alphabetically.
| Affiliation | 2010[1] | Gain from (loss to) | 2015[2] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON | LAB | SNP | DUP | LDP | SF | UUP | UKIP | AP | |||
| Conservative Party | 306 | 8 | 27 | (1) | 330 | ||||||
| Labour Party | 258 | 10 | (40) | 12 | 232 | ||||||
| Scottish National Party | 6 | 40 | 10 | 56 | |||||||
| Democratic Unionist Party | 8 | (1) | 1 | 8 | |||||||
| Liberal Democrats | 57 | (27) | (12) | (10) | 8 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | 5 | (1) | 4 | ||||||||
| Plaid Cymru | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| Social Democratic & Labour Party | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| Ulster Unionist Party | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Green Party | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| UK Independence Party | – | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Independent 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| The Speaker 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Alliance Party | 1 | (1) | – | ||||||||
| totals | 650 | (24) | 26 | (50) | – | 49 | 1 | (2) | (1) | 1 | 650 |
1 Sylvia Hermon, MP for North Down [3]
2 John Bercow, MP for Buckingham, stood as 'The Speaker seeking re-election'.[4] The Speaker of the House of Commons is not chosen until parliament meets after a General Election.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
HoC 2010 seatswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "House of Commons Library 2015 seats per party". General Elections Online. House of Commons Library. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ^ "North Down 2015 result". Election Results. Electoral Office of Northern Ireland. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ^ "Buckingham 2015 result". AVDC News. Aylesbury Vale District Council. Retrieved 31 August 2015.