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Revision as of 09:33, 16 October 2010

Party or group	Seats
Conservative	305^[1]
Liberal Democrat	57
Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition group	362
Labour	255^[2]
DUP	8
SNP	6
Sinn Féin^[3]	5
Plaid Cymru	3
SDLP	3
Green	1
Alliance^[4]	1
Independent^[5]	2^[6]
Speaker and deputies^[7]	4
Total	650
Government working majority^[8]	83<ref>Treats the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats as a single group; includes any suspended MPs; does not include the Speaker and Speaker's Deputies (who do not usually vote) or Sinn Fein (which does not take the seats).

↑ One Conservative MP acts as a Deputy Speaker, so does not vote.
↑ Two Labour MPs act as Deputy Speakers, so do not vote.
↑ Sinn Féin contests UK general elections but does not take the seats; therefore, its MPs do not vote or speak in the House of Commons.
↑ Works closely with the Liberal Democrats, but is a separate organisation.
↑ Independent politicians stand for election on a variety of issues and so do not necessarily co-operate in the House of Commons.
↑ Lady Sylvia Hermon and Eric Illsley.
↑ Do not normally vote; the Speaker is not a member of any party, while the Deputies can maintain membership but are not involved in party political activities.
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- Working majority [r]: In a parliamentary democracy, the number of politicians in the governing party minus those of all other parties combined, excluding those that do not normally vote. ^[e]

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