2015 United Kingdom General Election

The United Kingdom held its regularly scheduled parliamentary election on May 7, 2015. All 650 seats in the House of Commons were up for election, and a party needed to win at least 326 seats to form a majority government.

The U.K. had been governed by a coalition government between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats since the previous general election in 2010.

Incumbent Prime Minister David Cameron saw his Conservatives gain two-dozen seats, securing a parliamentary majority to end the coalition government. The Scottish National Party gained 50 seats in this election—mostly at the expense of the Liberal Democrats and the opposition Labour Party.