United Kingdom 2005 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 355 of 646 seats with 35.2% of the vote; 61.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.2 points on 2001.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 355 | −57 | 35.2 | −5.5 | 9,552,436 |
| Conservative Party | 198 | +32 | 32.4 | +0.7 | 8,784,915 |
| Liberal Democrats | 62 | +10 | 22.0 | +3.7 | 5,985,454 |
| UK Independence Party | 0 | 0 | 2.2 | +0.7 | 605,973 |
| Scottish National Party | 6 | +1 | 1.5 | −0.3 | 412,267 |
| Green Party of England and Wales | 0 | 1.0 | 283,414 | ||
| Democratic Unionist Party | 9 | +4 | 0.9 | +0.2 | 241,856 |
| Plaid Cymru | 3 | −1 | 0.6 | −0.1 | 174,838 |
| Sinn Féin | 5 | +1 | 0.6 | −0.1 | 174,530 |
| Ulster Unionist Party | 1 | −5 | 0.5 | −0.3 | 127,414 |
| Social Democratic and Labour Party | 3 | 0 | 0.5 | −0.1 | 125,626 |
| Respect -- The Unity Coalition | 1 | 0.3 | 68,094 | ||
| Other parties (seats only) | 3 | +1 |
± is the change against the United Kingdom 2001 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 9,552,436
- Conservative Party 8,784,915
- Liberal Democrats 5,985,454
- UK Independence Party 605,973
- Scottish National Party 412,267
- Green Party of England and Wales 283,414
- Democratic Unionist Party 241,856
- Plaid Cymru 174,838
- Sinn Féin 174,530
- Ulster Unionist Party 127,414
- Social Democratic and Labour Party 125,626
- Respect -- The Unity Coalition 68,094
- Other parties (seats only)
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
Share of the vote
Turnout
61.8% of the 44,245,939 registered voters cast a ballot (27,336,093 ballots), up 2.2 points on 2001. 27,148,510 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Labour Party35.2% of votes55.0% of seats
- Conservative Party32.4% of votes30.7% of seats
- Liberal Democrats22.0% of votes9.6% of seats
- Democratic Unionist Party0.9% of votes1.4% of seats
- Scottish National Party1.5% of votes0.9% of seats
- Sinn Féin0.6% of votes0.8% of seats
- Plaid Cymru0.6% of votes0.5% of seats
- Social Democratic and Labour Party0.5% of votes0.5% of seats
- Ulster Unionist Party0.5% of votes0.2% of seats
- Respect -- The Unity Coalition0.3% of votes0.2% of seats
- UK Independence Party2.2% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 16.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.6 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Labour Party led Conservative Party by 2.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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