United Kingdom general election, 2010 (Wiltshire)

The results of the 2010 United Kingdom general election in Wiltshire were all announced on Friday 7 May 2010. The county received one new constituency for this election, bringing the total to seven, after boundary changes issued by the Boundary Commission for England.

The Conservatives won six of the seven seats, gaining both of the Swindon seats from Labour. The Liberal Democrats won the newly created Chippenham constituency, gaining their first Wiltshire seat since the 1920s. Labour lost all their seats.

Overall result

Party		MPs	+/-	Contested	Votes	%	+/-%
	Conservative Party	6	+2	7	163,408	47.7
	Liberal Democrats	1	+1	7	103,917	30.4
	Labour Party	0	-2	7	52,400	15.3
	UKIP	0		7	13,714	4.0
	Green Party	0		6	3,470	1.0
	British National Party	0		3	2,948	0.9
	Independents	0		5	1,756	0.5
	English Democrats	0		1	307	0.1
	Christian	0		2	294	0.1
	Libertarian	0		1	141	0.0

seat by seat

Constituency		Party	MP	Majority	Result	Swing
	Chippenham	Liberal Democrats	Duncan Hames	2,470	Lib Dem notional hold	0.0% No change
	Devizes	Conservatives	Claire Perry	13,005	Conservative hold	0.3% from Conservatives to Lib Dem
	North Wiltshire	Conservatives	James Gray	7,483	Conservative hold	0.0% No change
	Salisbury	Conservatives	John Glen	5,966	Conservative hold	3.6% from Conservatives to Lib Dem
	South West Wiltshire	Conservatives	Andrew Murrison	10,367	Conservative hold	1.1% from Lib Dem to Conservatives
	Swindon North	Conservatives	Justin Tomlinson	7,060	Conservative gain from Labour	10.1% from Labour to Conservatives
	Swindon South	Conservatives	Robert Buckland	3,544	Conservative gain from Labour	5.5% from Labour to Conservatives

References

United Kingdom general election, 2010

Boundary changes Constituencies Debates MPs elected MPs who stood down Newspaper endorsements Opinion polling Parties Results breakdown Results by constituency MPs by seniority Post-election events

Incumbent Prime Minister: Gordon Brown (Labour) Subsequent Prime Minister: David Cameron (Conservative)

Parties elected to the House of Commons	Conservative (David Cameron) Labour (Gordon Brown) Liberal Democrats (Nick Clegg) Democratic Unionist Party (Peter Robinson) Scottish National Party (Alex Salmond) Sinn Féin (Gerry Adams) Plaid Cymru (Ieuan Wyn Jones) Social Democratic and Labour Party (Margaret Ritchie) Green Party of England and Wales (Caroline Lucas) Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (David Ford) Independent (Sylvia Hermon)

Parties represented in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, London, or the EU	British National Party (Nick Griffin) Green Party in Northern Ireland (Mark Bailey / Karly Greene) Progressive Unionist Party (Dawn Purvis) Scottish Green Party (Eleanor Scott / Patrick Harvie) Ulster Unionist Party (Sir Reg Empey) United Kingdom Independence Party (Lord Pearson)

Results by area	Northern Ireland Scotland Edinburgh Glasgow Wales England Birmingham Bristol Cornwall East Sussex Lancashire London Greater Manchester Merseyside Oxfordshire Surrey Wiltshire

United Kingdom local elections, 2010

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