What happened in the most recent UK election?

In the most recent general election which took place on the 7th of May 2015, it was not as straight forward as previous years may have arguably been. On the same day many local elections also took place. There were two stand out parties that were neck and neck before voting even took place: Labour led by Ed Miliband and the Conservatives led by David Cameron. This gave Labour confidence as expected, but their arrogance may have been what lost them their opportunity to govern the UK. Conservatives won the election after having been apart of a coalition government since 2010 with the Liberal Democrats. Winning 331 seats by the skin of their teeth, made a extremely smug Cameron and a resigning Miliband. The resignation of leaders in the general election seemed to be a common theme in the most recent UK election, with the resignation of Ed Miliband leader of Labour, Nick Clegg leader of the Liberal Democrats and Nigel Farage leader of UKIP.

The biggest shock of the most recent election was the SNP and the masses of seats they had won, the reason as to why this was such a shock was because of the result of the referendum. The outcome of the referendum was for Scotland to remain apart of the UK, even after all of the upheaval of them wanting to no longer be part of the UK they won many seats in the general election. They were definitely the underdogs of the general election this year.

Furthermore the Liberal democrats crashed and burned this year, due to their broken promise from their previous time in power, of the tuition fees being scrapped and then them increasing them almost 3 times as much. Arguably this is not their fault and circumstances were tough, but this definitely was one of the main reasons as to why they was not voted into power this time around.

UKIP. The panic this party caused when waves of support suddenly emerged made everybody believe that UKIP may have a chance at winning, but no, their pro-british, racist policies only gained them one seat this year.

In conclusion the general election this year was definitely one to remember and full of resignations.