Talk:2010 United Kingdom general election

Introduction
The article states this was "the first general election to be contested by the leaders of all three of the three leading political parties". Surely, this makes no sense? I suggest something along the lines that this was "the first general election to be contested by different leaders of the three leading political parties compared to the previous election".--WSmith26997 (talk) 21:38, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Claim re Rochdale result in "Bigotgate" section
The "Bigotgate" says " Despite this, Labour went on to gain the Rochdale seat from the Liberal Democrats, one of the few gains they made in the election". The problem here is that most sources would dispute this. It is a complicated issue. The Lib Dem Paul Rowen had indeed won The Rochdale constituency in 2005 and was defeated by Labour's Simon Danczuk at this election, the 2005 seat had significantly different boundaries. This on election night the BBC counted it as a Labour hold, as did The Times Guide to the House of Commons 2010, which also notes (on p244) that the boundary changes helped Labour (and suggests that on these boundaries in 2005 Labour would have had 40.9% to the Lib Dems' 40.7%). I would note the claim of a game is not cited. It is true to say the Lib Dems, given their polling were favourites to win the seat, and on election night one of the BBC presenters (I think David Dimbleby commented that Labour's win was a surprise as the Rochdale electorate (especially women) had been expected to react negatively to the Gillian Duffy incident. I is also worth noting that Labour's vote still fell - with the the Times Guide indicating they were down about 4.5%, but the Lib Dem vote fell further by over 6% - other parties - notably the Conservatives - picked up these votes. Not sure how this could be best incorporated (if needed) in the article, but the statement as it stands is (I am sure totally unintentionally) misleading. Dunarc (talk) 20:49, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Image for Nick Clegg in infobox
Is this the best image available for use on Wikipedia of Nick Clegg? This image looks quite low-quality and blurry looking closer. I cannot find many high-quality images of Nick Clegg before 2010 or around the time of the election though. Qwerty123M (talk) 00:50, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Notional seat changes
People keep changing the notional seat changes in the infobox, presumably because they don't understand the concept of the seat changes being notional due to boundary changes, or maybe they just haven't read the footnote. Having said that, do we have a reliable source for the notional figures? Mark and inwardly digest (talk) 09:30, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

The results table is missing a large number of candidates
4,150 candidates stood in the 2010 general election (source), but the results table here only lists 3,720. The Grand Lunar (talk) 20:26, 8 May 2024 (UTC)