Editing Gordon Brown (section)

===2010 general election===
{{main|2010 United Kingdom general election}}
In April 2010, Brown asked the Queen to dissolve Parliament. The general election campaign included the first televised leadership debates in Britain. The result of the election on 6 May was a [[hung parliament]].<ref name="BBC 07-05-2010">{{Cite news |date=7 May 2010 |title=Election 2010: First hung parliament in UK for decades |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8667071.stm |url-status=live |access-date=14 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511135305/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8667071.stm |archive-date=11 May 2012}}</ref> Brown was re-elected as MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath with 29,559 votes.<ref name="BBC 07-05-2010"/><ref>{{Cite news |date=7 May 2010 |title=General Election 2010&nbsp;– Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/results/constituency/840.stm |url-status=live |access-date=14 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031202628/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/results/constituency/840.stm |archive-date=31 October 2012}}</ref>