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These are the results of the 2010 United Kingdom general election in Wales. The election was held on 6 May 2010, and all 40 parliamentary seats in Wales were contested. The Labour Party remained the party with the most seats in Wales, however it suffered a net loss of 4 seats and its share of the vote dropped by 6.5%. The Conservatives increased their number of seats by 5 and the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru saw little change both in the number of seats and share of the vote.

Despite the Labour party winning the most votes in Wales, the Conservatives won across the UK.^[2]

Results

Party		Seats					Votes
		Total	Gains	Losses	Net +/-	% seats	Total	%	Change
	Labour	26	1	5	4	65.0	531,601	36.2	6.5
	Conservative	8	5	0	5	20.0	382,730	26.1	4.7
	Liberal Democrats	3	0	1	1	7.5	295,164	20.1	1.7
	Plaid Cymru	3	1	0	1	7.5	165,394	11.3	1.3
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	—	35,690	2.4	1.0
	BNP	0	0	0	0	—	23,088	1.6	1.5
	Green	0	0	0	0	—	6,293	0.4	0.1
	Christian	0	0	0	0	—	1,947	0.1	N/A
	TUSC	0	0	0	0	—	341	0.0	N/A
	Others	0	0	1	1	—	24,442	1.7	1.1
Total		40					1,466,690		64.9

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