British Left left-wing party in the UK, by membership, is the Green Party of England and Wales. , membership was 45,643. The party has one Member of Parliament, Caroline Lucas, who was a Co-Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales; and was first elected as the MP for Brighton Pavilion at the 2010 general election. The other two political parties on the left and with representation in parliament are the centre-left Scottish National Party (SNP) and the left-wing Plaid Cymru. The SNP are only active in Scotland and Plaid are only active in Wales. The SNP has 35 MPs and
2010 Labour Party (UK) leadership election exception of Wigan (Andy Burnham and David Miliband) were between David and Ed Miliband. Northern Ireland was counted as one constituency. Turnout in the affiliates section was 9.0%, with 247,339 votes cast of the 2,747,030 ballots distributed. 2010 Labour Party (UK) leadership election The 2010 Labour Party leadership election was triggered by a general election which resulted in a hung parliament. On 10 May, Gordon Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party. The following day, he stepped down as Prime Minister. The National Executive Committee decided the timetable for the election the result of which would be announced at