The following table shows final election results as reported by BBC News[1] and The Guardian.[2]
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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 |