The 2015 United Kingdom general election in Wales was held on 7 May 2015 and all 40 seats in

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

were contested. The election for each seat was conducted on the basis of

first-past-the-post In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...

. Despite the Labour party winning the most votes in Wales, the Conservatives won across the UK.

Results overview

A full list of the results in Wales can be found in the House of Commons Library General Elections Online. The following is an overall table of results for Wales by the BBC.

Turnout statistics

¹ valid vote, count of rejected ballots and total electorate come from the source(s) given in 'Table of results by constituency' below.

Results by constituency

¹ The information on the winning party and the majority come from the source(s) indicated.
² The total electorate comes from unless another reference is given.
³ The MP is a Labour Co-op Party member but he was nominated as 'Welsh Labour'.

Target seats

Labour

Gower Gower ( cy, Gŵyr) or the Gower Peninsula () in southwest Wales, projects towards the Bristol Channel. It is the most westerly part of the historic county of Glamorgan. In 1956, the majority of Gower became the first area in the United Kingdom ...

, Conservative, 0.1% *

Vale of Clwyd The Vale of Clwyd ( cy, Dyffryn Clwyd) is a tract of low-lying ground in the county of Denbighshire in north-east Wales. The Vale extends south-southwestwards from the coast of the Irish Sea for some 20 miles (about 30 km) forming a triangl ...

, Conservative, 0.7% * Cardiff North, Conservative, 4.2%

Conservative

Bridgend Bridgend (; cy, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr or just , meaning "the end of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of Cardiff and east of Swansea. The town is named after the Old Bridge, Bridgend, medieval bridge ...

, Labour, 4.9% *

Wrexham Wrexham ( ; cy, Wrecsam; ) is a city and the administrative centre of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. It is located between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley, near the border with Cheshire in England. Historically in the count ...

, Labour, 5.6% * Clwyd South, Labour, 6.9% * Delyn, Labour, 7.8% * Alyn and Deeside, Labour, 8.1% * Newport West, Labour, 8.7%

Plaid Cymru

* Ynys Môn, Labour, 0.7% *

Ceredigion Ceredigion ( , , ) is a county in the west of Wales, corresponding to the historic county of Cardiganshire. During the second half of the first millennium Ceredigion was a minor kingdom. It has been administered as a county since 1282. Cere ...

, Liberal Democrats, 8.2%

Opinion polling

References

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