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United Kingdom general election, 2005

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The United Kingdom general election of 2005 will be held on 5 May, 2005, just over three weeks after the dissolution of Parliament on 11 April by Queen Elizabeth II, at the request of the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. The general election is a first-past-the-post election in each of the 646 constituencies in the United Kingdom, for seats in the House of Commons. The party which wins the largest number of seats is likely to form the country's next government.

Contents
1 Results
2 References
3 External links

3.1 Media coverage
3.2 Electoral information
3.3 Manifestos
3.4 Web directories
3.5 Betting
3.6 Miscellaneous

Results

Party Party Leader # of
candidates 		Number of Seats Popular Vote
2001 Dissolution Elected Change 2001 (millions) 2005 (millions) % Change
  Labour Tony Blair 627 412 409     10.72 (40.7%)    
  Conservative Michael Howard 630 166 162     8.36 (31.7%)    
  Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy 626 52 54     4.81 (18.3%)    
  Democratic Unionist Ian Paisley 18 5 7     0.18 (0.7%)    
  Scottish National Alex Salmond 59 5 5     0.46 (1.8%)    
  Ulster Unionist David Trimble 18 6 5     0.22 (0.8%)    
  Plaid Cymru Dafydd Iwan 59 4 4     0.20 (0.8%)    
  Sinn Féin Gerry Adams 16 4 4     0.18 (0.7%)    
  SDLP Mark Durkan 17 3 3     0.17 (0.6%)    
  Respect George Galloway 26 — 1     —    
  UKIP Roger Knapman 488 0 0     0.39 (1.5%)    
  Green (Eng/Wls) none 183 0 0     0.16 (0.6%)    
  Scottish Socialist Colin Fox 58 0 0     0.07 (0.3%)    
  Scottish Green none 19 0 0     <0.01 (<0.0%)    
  Veritas Robert Kilroy-Silk 62 — 0     —    
  Independents 155 Electoral Calculus
  1. As reported in the newspaper article

References

External links

Media coverage

Electoral information

Manifestos

Web directories

Betting

Miscellaneous

  • Who should you vote for? - A tool to show which party's policies most closely match your priorities
  • Who Do I Vote For? - An alternative tool to show which party's policies most closely match your opinions on 20 key policy areas

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