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| rdfs:label | - English general election, 2011 (Napoleon's World)
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| rdfs:comment | - The 2011 English general election was held on May 2nd, 2011 as per the Constitution of the Republic of England. In contest were all 601 seats of the English Parliament, of which entering the election the Conservative Party controlled 342 and the Labour Party 259. The incumbent Prime Minister, Hugh Grant (MP) stood as leader of the Conservative Party against Jack Davenport, the newly elected leader of the Labour Party. As per the final results, the 2011-2014 English government will officially form and be sworn in on May 4th. As May 1st fell on a Sunday in 2011, the election was held the following day, as allowed for in the Constitution.
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| abstract | - The 2011 English general election was held on May 2nd, 2011 as per the Constitution of the Republic of England. In contest were all 601 seats of the English Parliament, of which entering the election the Conservative Party controlled 342 and the Labour Party 259. The incumbent Prime Minister, Hugh Grant (MP) stood as leader of the Conservative Party against Jack Davenport, the newly elected leader of the Labour Party. As per the final results, the 2011-2014 English government will officially form and be sworn in on May 4th. As May 1st fell on a Sunday in 2011, the election was held the following day, as allowed for in the Constitution. Preliminary results indicated that Labour had regained an extremely narrow majority in Parliament after being in the opposition for six years, with potentially as narrow a majority as seven seats, 304-297, but still making Jack Davenport the presumptive Prime Minister-elect.
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