Electoral history of Gordon Brown

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This is a summary of the electoral history of Gordon Brown, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He was the member of parliament (MP) for Dunfermline East from 1983 to 2005 and Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath from 2005 to 2015.

Parliamentary elections

1979 general election, Edinburgh South

{{#section:Edinburgh South (UK Parliament constituency)|General Election 1979}}

1983 general election, Dunfermline East

{{#section:Dunfermline East (UK Parliament constituency)|General Election 1983}}

1987 general election, Dunfermline East

{{#section:Dunfermline East (UK Parliament constituency)|General Election 1987}}

1992 general election, Dunfermline East

{{#section:Dunfermline East (UK Parliament constituency)|General Election 1992}}

1997 general election, Dunfermline East

{{#section:Dunfermline East (UK Parliament constituency)|General Election 1997}}

2001 general election, Dunfermline East

{{#section:Dunfermline East (UK Parliament constituency)|General Election 2001}}

2005 general election, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath

{{#section:Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (UK Parliament constituency)|General Election 2005}}

2010 general election, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath

{{#section:Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (UK Parliament constituency)|General Election 2010}}

2010 United Kingdom general election

 Summary of the May 2010 House of Commons of the United Kingdom election results

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Political party		Leader	Candidates						Votes
			Nominated	Elected	Of total (%)	Gained	Lost	Net	Count	Proportion of total (%)	Change in proportion (%)
	Conservative	David Cameron	631	306	47.1	100	3	+97	10,703,754	36.1	+3.7
	Labour	Gordon Brown	631	258	39.7	3	94	−91	8,609,527	29.0	−6.2
	Liberal Democrats	Nick Clegg	631	57	8.8	8	13	−5	6,836,824	23.0	+1.0
	UKIP	Lord Pearson	558	0	0	0	0	0	919,546	3.1	+0.9
	BNP	Nick Griffin	338	0	0	0	0	0	564,331	1.9	+1.2
	SNP	Alex Salmond	59	6	0.9	0	0	0	491,386	1.7	+0.1
	Green	Caroline Lucas	310	1	0.2	1	0	+1	265,247	0.9	−0.2
	Sinn Féin	Gerry Adams	17	5	0.8	0	0	0	171,942	0.6	−0.1
	DUP	Peter Robinson	16	8	1.2	0	1	−1	168,216	0.6	−0.3
	Plaid Cymru	Ieuan Wyn Jones	40	3	0.5	1	0	+1	165,394	0.6	−0.1
	SDLP	Margaret Ritchie	18	3	0.5	0	0	0	110,970	0.4	−0.1
	UCU-NF	Reg Empey	17	0	0	0	1	−1	102,361	0.3	−0.1
	English Democrat	Robin Tilbrook	107	0	0	0	0	0	64,826	0.2	0.2
	Alliance	David Ford	18	1	0.2	1	0	+1	42,762	0.1	0.0
	Respect	Salma Yaqoob	11	0	0	0	1	−1	33,251	0.1	−0.1
	TUV	Jim Allister	10	0	0	0	0	0	26,300	0.1	—
	Speaker	—	1	1	0.2	0	0	0	22,860	0.1	0.0
	Independent – Rodney Connor	—	1	0	0	0	0	0	21,300	0.1	—
	Independent – Sylvia Hermon	—	1	1	0.2	1	0	+1	21,181	0.1	—
	Christian	George Hargreaves	71	0	0	0	0	0	18,623	0.1	+0.1
	Scottish Green	Eleanor Scott and Patrick Harvie	20	0	0	0	0	0	16,827	0.1	0.0
	Health Concern	Richard Taylor	1	0	0	0	1	−1	16,150	0.1	0.0
	Independent – Bob Spink	—	1	0	0	0	0	0	12,174	0.0	—
	TUSC	Dave Nellist	37	0	0	0	0	0	12,275	0.0	—
	National Front	Ian Edward	17	0	0	0	0	0	10,784	0.0	0.0
	Buckinghamshire Campaign for Democracy	John Stevens	1	0	0	0	0	0	10,331	0.0	—
	Monster Raving Loony	Howling Laud Hope	27	0	0	0	0	0	7,510	0.0	0.0
	Socialist Labour	Arthur Scargill	23	0	0	0	0	0	7,196	0.0	−0.1
	Liberal	Rob Wheway	5	0	0	0	0	0	6,781	0.0	−0.1
	Blaenau Gwent PV	Dai Davies	1	0	0	0	1	−1	6,458	0.0	−0.1
	CPA	Alan Craig	17	0	0	0	0	0	6,276	0.0	0.0
	Mebyon Kernow	Dick Cole	6	0	0	0	0	0	5,379	0.0	0.0
	Lincolnshire Independent	Marianne Overton	3	0	0	0	0	0	5,311	0.0	—
	Mansfield Independent Forum		1	0	0	0	0	0	4,339	0.0	—
	Green (NI)	Mark Bailey and Karly Greene	4	0	0	0	0	0	3,542	0.0	0.0
	Socialist Alternative	Peter Taaffe	4	0	0	0	0	0	3,298	0.0	0.0
	Trust	Stuart Wheeler	2	0	0	0	0	0	3,233	0.0	—
	Scottish Socialist	Colin Fox and Frances Curran	10	0	0	0	0	0	3,157	0.0	−0.1
	People Before Profit	—	1	0	0	0	0	0	2,936	0.0	—
	Local Liberals People Before Politics		1	0	0	0	0	0	1,964	0.0	—
	Independent – Esther Rantzen	—	1	0	0	0	0	0	1,872	0.0	—
	Alliance for Green Socialism	Mike Davies	6	0	0	0	0	0	1,581	0.0	0.0
	SDP	Peter Johnson	2	0	0	0	0	0	1,551	0.0	—
	Pirate	Andrew Robinson	9	0	0	0	0	0	1,348	0.0	—
	Common Sense Party	Howard Thomas	2	0	0	0	0	0	1,173	0.0	0.0
	Staffordshire Independent Group		1	0	0	0	0	0	1,208	0.0	0.0
	Tendring First		1	0	0	0	0	0	1,078	0.0	0.0
	Solihull and Meriden Residents Association		2	0	0	0	0	0	977	0.0	0.0
	Communist	Robert Griffiths	6	0	0	0	0	0	947	0.0	0.0
	Democratic Labour	Brian Powell	1	0	0	0	0	0	842	0.0	0.0
	English Independence Party		1	0	0	0	0	0	803	0.0	0.0
	Democratic Nationalist Party		2	0	0	0	0	0	753	0.0	—
	Save King George Hospital		1	0	0	0	0	0	746	0.0	0.0
	Workers Revolutionary	Sheila Torrance	7	0	0	0	0	0	738	0.0	0.0
	Peace	John Morris	3	0	0	0	0	0	737	0.0	0.0
	Animal Protection	—	4	0	0	0	0	0	675	0.0	0.0
	Christian Movement for Great Britain		2	0	0	0	0	0	598	0.0	0.0
	New Millennium Bean Party	Captain Beany	1	0	0	0	0	0	558	0.0	0.0
Total			3,720	650	100	115	115	0	29,687,604	Turnout: 65.1