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Contents. 2010 United Kingdom general election. The 2010 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 May 2010, with 45,597,461 registered voters [1] entitled to vote to elect members to the House of Commons. The election took place in 650 constituencies [note 2] across the United Kingdom under the first-past-the-post system.
After further government defeats, a general election was held in December 2019 - the first December election since 1923 - which resulted in an 80-seat majority for the Conservatives, gaining many seats which Labour had held since at least 1945. The United Kingdom formally left the European Union on 31 January 2020. Party.
The "United Kingdom" as a name is taken to refer to the kingdom that emerged when the Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland merged on 1 January 1801. ² The name "Great Britain" (then spelt "Great Brittaine") was first used by James VI/I in October 1604, who indicated that henceforth he and his successors would be viewed as Kings of Great Britain, not Kings of England and Scotland.
The United Kingdom's population is predominantly White British (81.88% at the 2011 Census ), but due to migration from Commonwealth nations, Britain has become ethnically diverse. The second and third largest non-white racial groups are Asian British at 7% of the population, followed by Black British people at 3%.
Most opinion polls do not cover Northern Ireland, which has different major political parties from the rest of the United Kingdom. This distinction is made in the table below in the area column, where "GB" means Great Britain , which is made up of England, Scotland and Wales, and excludes Northern Ireland, and "UK" means United Kingdom , which includes Northern Ireland.
Assistant Chiefs. Assistant Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff: [5] [6] Major-General Laurence Carr (1939–1940) Major-General Arthur Percival (Apr 1940 – Jul 1940) Major-General Desmond Anderson (May 1940 – Jul 1940) Lieutenant-General Gordon Macready (Oct 1940 – Jun 1942) Major-General Daril Watson (Jun 1942 – Dec 1942)
Since 1922, the United Kingdom has been made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain) and Northern Ireland ( variously described as a country, [1] province, [2] [3] [4] jurisdiction [5] or region [6] [7] ). The UK Prime Minister 's website has used the phrase "countries within a country" to ...
