She retired from politics at the 2010 general election.

On 31 December 2010 the general FSCS limit for retail deposits was increased to £ 85, 000 for banks and building societies and the transitional arrangements in respect of building society mergers came to an end.

The inquiry was expected to report in late 2009 but was delayed until after the general election on 6 May 2010.

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.

At a February 2, 2010 congressional hearing, Senator John McCain read from a letter signed by " over one thousand former general and flag officers ".

The Big Society was the flagship policy idea of the 2010 UK Conservative Party general election manifesto.

* 1916 – Marcel Bigeard, French general ( d. 2010 )

It was the largest party in Dáil Éireann at every general election from the 1932 general election until the 2011 general election, when it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history of the Irish state, a loss described as " historic " in its proportions, where it saw its electoral support base diminished by 75 %, as a reaction to the intervention, and in the running of the Irish economy, of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in November 2010.

A new general manager was appointed in 2010 with a mandate to develop the station to meet future requirements of the community.

Party leader John Gormley called publicly in November 2010 for a general election in the state to be fixed by the latter half of January 2011, allowing time for the Oireachtas to pass legislation for European Union and International Monetary Fund financial support for Ireland ; the date of the election was eventually set for March 2011.

The university introduced a new curriculum in January 2010 that was intended to broaden the knowledge of graduates and to include study in general education subjects.

In 2010, the Mets hired a new general manager, Sandy Alderson, and a new manager, Terry Collins.

When the general election of 2010 produced a hung parliament, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties agreed to form Her Majesty's current coalition government, the first in seventy years.

, Gordon Brown remains a Member of Parliament, retaining his Commons seat in the 2010 general election and choosing to remain a backbencher.

In the general timeframe of 2010 to 2012, stores in the United States have been featuring potato chips labeled on the package as " Kettle Cooked.

In the following May 2010 UK general election, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, launched in January 2010 and backed by Bob Crow, the leader of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union ( RMT ), other union leaders and the Socialist Party among other socialist groups, stood against Labour in 40 constituencies.

* 1916 – Frederick C. Weyand, American general ( d. 2010 )

An early general election was called on 16 April 2010, and was held on 24 May 2010.

As of 2010 there are 650 constituencies ( there were 646 before that year's general election.

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( no single party being able to command a majority in the House of Commons ).

Since then, Costa Rica has held 13 presidential elections, the latest in 2010.

After a long delay, elections were finally held in 2010.

On 28 February 2011 ONUCI consisted of 7, 568 troops, 177 military observers, and numerous international civilians and Police ; the mission had received helicopter and infantry reinforcement from UNMIL during the stand-off since the late 2010 elections which had been won by Alassane Ouattara.

The region's governor is, since 1 January 2011, Stavros Arnaoutakis, who was elected in the November 2010 local administration elections for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.

In 2010, the coalition collapsed resulting in new elections that were won by SPD.

The last elections were the January 2010 Iraqi legislative elections.

In 2010, the States assembly agreed to holding elections for all seats on a single date and to cut the number of Senators from 12 to 8.

As had happened in many states throughout the U. S. during the 2010 Midterm elections, democrats suffered heavy losses.

Presidential elections, originally expected in 2010, were rescheduled for 23 July 2009.

Within two months, a transitional government had been established under the leadership of Albert Zafy ( 1993 – 96 ), who went on to win the 1992 presidential elections and inaugurate the Third Republic ( 1992 – 2010 ).

In 2010, the MLP made a controversial alliance with the MSM, which is reported to have been decided since MSM's leader Pravind Jugnauth won the partial elections in constituency No. 8 owing to MLP's leader's silent orders.

The referendum election was held on this subject during the November 2, 2010 elections, and the people overwhelmingly voted ( 78 % to 22 %) to keep the original name.

In the United States, the nonpartisan blanket primary, introduced in Louisiana for partisan state elections in 1975 and federal elections in 1978 ( with a short return to a closed primary system in 2010 ), is virtually identical to the two-round system.

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition plans to contest the 2011 elections, having gained the endorsement of the RMT June 2010 conference.

No political parties or national elections are permitted and according to The Economist's 2010 Democracy Index, the Saudi government is the seventh most authoritarian regime from among the 167 countries rated.

In early 2010, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited pursuant to the right of these entities to free speech.

In March 2007 the two sides signed an agreement to hold fresh elections, though they ended up being delayed until 2010, five years after Gbagbo's term of office was supposed to have expired.

Vendola was re-elected at the 2010 elections this time representing the Left Ecology freedom party.

The Municipality of Sassari was subdivided into ten circoscrizioni ( administrative districts ), reduced to six since the elections of May 3, 2000, and four since the elections of May 31, 2010.

Due to perceived neglect of Corfu by the central government in Athens, local businessmen and others proposed formation of an autonomist party to compete in the 2010 local elections.

In recent times the right-wing Party for Freedom, which has a strong stance on immigration and integration, won 9 ( out of 150 ) seats in the 2006 elections and 24 in 2010.