Three Election Case Studies

The 2015 General Election 

• Conservatives won with 330 seats
• Gained 28 seats 
• Labour lost 24 seats, only 232 overall 
• SNP made considerable gains, gained 50 seats with 56 seats overall 
• Lib Dems got destroyed, losing 48 seats and only getting 8 seats overall 
• A lot of Labours working class vote taken by UKIP, who got 12.6% of popular vote 
• Conservatives…