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WARNING: This Wikipedia page has inaccuracies according to the House of Commons General Election 2005 report. [1]
The 2005 United Kingdom general election in England took place on 5 May 2005 for 529 English seats in the British House of Commons. The Labour Party under Tony Blair won an overall majority of seats for the third successive election.
Within England, the Conservative Party received 72,544 more votes than the Labour Party, but Labour won an overall majority of English seats. [2] [3] The Liberal Democrats made modest gains, finishing with 23% of the vote and 47 seats. The only other parties to win seats were the Respect Party, who gained Bethnal Green and Bow from Labour, and Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern, who won Wyre Forest for the second election in a row.
Below is a table summarising the results of the 2005 general election in England.
Party [4] | Seats | Votes | |||||||
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Total | Gains | Losses | Net +/- | % seats | Total votes | % votes | Change | ||
Labour | 286 | 0 | 37 | 37 | 54.1 | 8,043,461 | 35.4 | 6.0 | |
Conservative | 194 | 32 | 3 | 29 | 36.7 | 8,116,005 | 35.7 | 0.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | 47 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 8.9 | 5,201,286 | 22.9 | 3.6 | |
Respect | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.2 | 67,422 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
Health Concern | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 18,739 | 0.1 | |||
UKIP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 592,417 | 2.6 | 0.9 | ||
Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 251,051 | 1.1 | 0.4 | ||
BNP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 189,570 | 0.8 | 0.6 | ||
Veritas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 39,044 | 0.2 | New | ||
Liberal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 17,547 | 0.1 | |||
Others | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 177,343 | 0.8 | N/A | ||
22,713,855 | 61.0 | 1.9 |
Regional vote shares and changes are sourced from the BBC. [4]
Party | Seats | Votes | ||||||
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Total | Gained | Lost | Net | Total | % | Change (%) | ||
Labour | 25 | - | 3 | -3 | 785,944 | 39.0 | -6.1 | |
Conservative | 18 | 3 | - | +3 | 747,438 | 37.1 | -0.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1 | - | - | - | 372,041 | 18.5 | +3.1 | |
UKIP | - | - | - | - | 52,998 | 2.6 | +1.5 | |
Others | - | - | - | - | 41,044 | 1.8 | +1.7 | |
Total | 44 | Turnout | 2,015,282 | 62.6 |
Party | Seats | Votes | ||||||
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Total | Gained | Lost | Net | Total | % | Change (%) | ||
Conservative | 40 | 6 | - | +6 | 1,147,180 | 43.3 | +1.5 | |
Labour | 13 | - | 7 | -7 | 790,372 | 29.8 | -7.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | 3 | 1 | - | +1 | 578,741 | 21.8 | +4.3 | |
UKIP | - | - | - | − | 83,112 | 4.3 | +1.1 | |
Others | - | - | - | - | 50,408 | 2.0 | — | |
Total | 56 | Turnout | 2,649,813 | 63.9 |
Party | Seats | Votes | ||||||
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Total | Gained | Lost | Net | Total | % | Change (%) | ||
Labour | 44 | 0 | 11 | -11 | 1,135,687 | 38.9 | -8.4 | |
Conservative | 21 | 7 | - | +7 | 931,966 | 31.9 | +1.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | 8 | 2 | - | +2 | 638,333 | 21.9 | +4.4 | |
Green | - | - | - | − | 78,595 | 2.7 | +1.0 | |
UKIP | - | - | - | − | 42,956 | 1.5 | +0.5 | |
Respect | - | - | 1 | +1 | 40,735 | 1.4 | +1.4 | |
BNP | - | - | - | − | 19,024 | 0.7 | +0.2 | |
Others | - | - | - | - | 30,894 | 1.0 | — | |
Total | 74 | Turnout | 2,918,190 | 57.8 |
Party | Seats | Votes | ||||||
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Total | Gained | Lost | Net | Total | % | Change (%) | ||
Labour | 28 [5] | - | - | 580,453 | 52.9 | -6.5 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 1 | - | - | 256,295 | 23.6 | +6.6 | ||
Conservative | 1 | - | - | 214,414 | 19.5 | -1.8 | ||
UKIP | - | - | - | 11,703 | 1.1 | +0.3 | ||
BNP | - | - | - | 9,672 | 0.9 | +0.9 | ||
Others | - | - | - | 25,664 | 2.0 | — | ||
Total | 30 | Turnout | 1,098,201 | 57.1 |
Party | Seats | Votes | ||||||
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Total | Gained | Lost | Net | Total | % | Change (%) | ||
Labour | 47 | - | 13 | -13 | 1,292,978 | 39.5 | -5.6 | |
Conservative | 22 | 12 | - | +12 | 1,038,967 | 31.7 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | 6 | 1 | - | +1 | 707,770 | 21.6 | +0.2 | |
UKIP | - | - | - | − | 103,782 | 3.2 | +1.2 | |
Others | - | - | - | - | 132,733 | 4.0 | — | |
Total | 75 | Turnout | 3,276,230 | 63.6 |
Party | Seats | Votes | ||||||
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Total | Gained | Lost | Net | Total | % | Change (%) | ||
Conservative | 75 | 15 | 1 | +14 | 2,140,895 | 49.9 | +4.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | 4 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 1,124,786 | 26.2 | +0.8 | |
Labour | 4 | - | 13 | -13 | 697,567 | 16.2 | -8.1 | |
Green | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 62,124 | 1.4 | +0.1 | |
UKIP | - | - | - | - | 177,269 | 4.1 | +1.0 | |
Others | - | - | - | - | 91,599 | 2.2 | — | |
Total | 84 | Turnout | 4,294,240 | 68.0 |
Party | Seats | Votes | ||||||
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Total | Gained | Lost | Net | Total | % | Change (%) | ||
Conservative | 36 | 12 | 1 | +11 | 1,187,637 | 42.8 | +4.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | 15 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 962,954 | 34.7 | +2.2 | |
Labour | 4 | - | 8 | -8 | 426,910 | 15.4 | -7.4 | |
UKIP | - | - | - | - | 123,975 | 4.5 | +0.7 | |
Others | - | - | - | - | 71,967 | 2.6 | — | |
Total | 55 | Turnout | 2,773,443 | 69.1 |
Party | Seats | Votes | ||||||
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Total | Gained | Lost | Net | Total | % | Change (%) | ||
Conservative | 33 | 16 | 1 | +15 | 1,044,081 | 39.5 | +4.5 | |
Labour | 24 | - | 14 | -14 | 808,114 | 30.6 | -8.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 540,160 | 20.5 | +1.9 | |
UKIP | - | - | - | − | 105,685 | 4.0 | +0.8 | |
BNP | - | - | - | - | 73,394 | 2.8 | +1.0 | |
Health Concern | 1 | - | - | - | 18,793 | 0.8 | -0.4 | |
Others | - | - | - | - | 52,881 | 2.1 | — | |
Total | 59 | Turnout | 2,640,465 | 64.6 |
Party | Seats | Votes | ||||||
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Total | Gained | Lost | Net | Total | % | Change (%) | ||
Labour | 32 | - | 9 | -9 | 821,368 | 34.7 | -9.3 | |
Conservative | 18 | 10 | - | +10 | 769,895 | 32.5 | +3.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | 3 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 543,684 | 23.0 | +2.2 | |
BNP | - | - | - | - | 104,177 | 4.4 | +1.6 | |
Others | - | - | - | - | 129,153 | 5.4 | — | |
Total | 53 | Turnout | 2,368,277 | 63.2 |
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