United Kingdom general election, 2015 (Northern Ireland)

United Kingdom general election, 2015

7 May 2015 (2015-05-07)

All 18 seats in Northern Ireland to the House of Commons

	First party	Second party

Leader	Peter Robinson	Gerry Adams
Party	DUP	Sinn Féin
Leader since	2008	1983
Last election	8 seats	5 seats
Seats before	8	5

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Alasdair McDonnell	David Ford
Party	SDLP	Alliance
Leader since	2011	2001
Last election	3 seats	1 seat
Seats before	3	1

Prime Minister before election

David Cameron
Conservative

Subsequent Prime Minister

TBD

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The United Kingdom general election, 2015 will be held on 7 May 2015, including all 18 seats in Northern Ireland being contested. There were no boundary changes from the 2010 General Election.

Debate

A political debate was held between the leaders of the five main parties in Northern Ireland: the Democratic Unionist Party, Sinn Féin, the Ulster Unionist Party, Social Democratic and Labour Party and Alliance Party of Northern Ireland as part of BBC Newsnight on 16 April 2015.^[1]

↑ "Election 2015: NI political parties in first TV election debate". BBC. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
↑ Channel 4 News, 21 April 2015, Channel 4

United Kingdom general election, 2015

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Incumbent Prime Minister: David Cameron (Conservative) Subsequent Prime Minister: TBD Incumbent Deputy Prime Minister: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats) Subsequent Deputy Prime Minister: TBD

Parties elected to the House of Commons	Conservative (David Cameron) Labour (Ed Miliband) Liberal Democrats (Nick Clegg) Democratic Unionist Party (Peter Robinson) Scottish National Party (Nicola Sturgeon) Sinn Féin (Gerry Adams) Plaid Cymru (Leanne Wood) Social Democratic and Labour Party (Alasdair McDonnell) UK Independence Party (Nigel Farage) Green Party of England and Wales (Natalie Bennett) Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (David Ford) Respect (George Galloway)

Parties represented in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, London, or the European Parliament	Green Party in Northern Ireland (Steven Agnew) Scottish Green Party (Patrick Harvie/Maggie Chapman) Ulster Unionist Party (Mike Nesbitt) Traditional Unionist Voice (Jim Allister)

Other	Full list of parties standing candidates

Results by area	Northern Ireland Scotland Wales England London Cornwall West Yorkshire

United Kingdom local elections, 2015