English general election, 2008 (Napoleon's World)

The 2008 English general elections were held on May 1st, 2008 as mandated by the Constitution of the Republic of England. The conservative Whigs, being the incumbent majority party in Parliament, won a comfortable victory to extend their majority acquired in 2005 over the liberal Labour Party. The final tally was, out of 601 seats in Parliament, 342 Whig seats to 259 Labour seats. Incumbent Prime Minister Jeremy Irons of the Whigs stepped down on May 3rd, as successor David Cameron had led the Whigs in the general election thanks to his victory as party leader in February. It was the shortest margin of time any party leader has ever had prior to a general election in English history. Nick McDonald had stood as Labour's leader in the election thanks to his assumption of party leadership in 2007.