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United Kingdom general election, 2005
Template:Country data United Kingdom
2001 ←
5 May 2005
Members elected
→ 2010

All 646 seats to the House of Commons
324 seats needed for a majority
Turnout 61.4%
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Tony Blair Michael Howard Charles Kennedy
Party [[Labour Party (UK)|Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/shortname]] [[Conservative Party (UK)|Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/shortname]] Liberal Democrats
Leader since 21 July 1994 6 November 2003 9 August 1999
Leader's seat Sedgefield Folkestone & Hythe Ross, Skye, & Lochaber
Last election 413 seats, 40.7% 166 seats, 31.7% 52 seats, 18.3%
Seats before 403 165 51
Seats won 355^ 198 62
Seat change Decrease47^ Increase33* Increase11*
Popular vote 9,552,436 8,784,915 5,985,454
Percentage 35.2% 32.4% 22.0%
Swing Decrease5.5% Increase0.7% Increase3.7%

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Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.

* Indicates boundary change - so this is a nominal figure ^ Figure does not include the speaker


PM before election

Tony Blair
[[Labour Party (UK)|Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/shortname]]

Subsequent PM

Tony Blair
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