Results of the 2005 general election.

Scotland

Highlands and Islands

North East Scotland

Mid Scotland and Fife

Central Scotland

West of Scotland

Lothian

South of Scotland

Northern Ireland

Wales

North West England

The Lakes, Lancashire, & Cheshire

Greater Manchester

Merseyside

North East England

Tyne & Wear

Northumberland, Durham & Cleveland

Yorkshire and the Humber

North Yorkshire, East Riding & North/North East Lincolnshire

West Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

East Midlands

Derbyshire, Western Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire

Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Eastern Leicestershire

West Midlands

Mercia

Birmingham & Coventry

Anglia

Mid-Anglia

East Anglia

South West England

Devon & Cornwall

West England

South East England

Wessex

Channel Coast

London

North East London

North West London

South West London

South East London

Seats that changed hands

A total of 63 seats changed hands, since the 2001 general election.

Labour gains

; from Liberal Democrats # Leicester South (lost in a

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, regained)

Conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization in ...
gains

; from Labour # Bexleyheath and Crayford # Braintree # Clwyd West #

Croydon Central Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Croydon, a local government district of Greater London. It is one of the largest commercial districts in Greater London, with an extensive ...

# Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale, and Tweeddale Ø # Enfield Southgate #

Forest of Dean The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England. It forms a roughly triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and northwest, Herefordshire to ...

Gravesham Gravesham ( ) is a local government district with borough status in north-west Kent, England. Its administrative centre and largest town is Gravesend, which was known as ''Gravesham'' in ancient times. Gravesham was formed on 1 April 1974 ...

Hammersmith and Fulham The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham () is a London borough in West London and which also forms part of Inner London. The borough was formed in 1965 from the merger of the former Metropolitan Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham. The bor ...

# Harwich #

Hemel Hempstead Hemel Hempstead () is a town in the Dacorum district in Hertfordshire, England, northwest of London, which is part of the Greater London Urban Area. The population at the 2011 census was 97,500. Developed after the Second World War as a new ...

Hornchurch Hornchurch is a suburban town in East London, England, and part of the London Borough of Havering. It is located east-northeast of Charing Cross. It comprises a number of shopping streets and a large residential area. It historically formed a l ...

# Ilford North #

Kettering Kettering is a market and industrial town in North Northamptonshire, England. It is located north of London and north-east of Northampton, west of the River Ise, a tributary of the River Nene. The name means "the place (or territory) of ...

# Lancaster and Wyre # Monmouth # Milton Keynes North East # Northampton South #

Peterborough Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...

# Preseli Pembrokeshire #

Putney Putney () is a district of southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. History Putney is an ancient paris ...

# Reading East # Rugby and Kenilworth # Scarborough and Whitby # Shipley #

Shrewsbury and Atcham Shrewsbury and Atcham was a local government district with borough status in Shropshire, England, between 1974 and 2009. Shrewsbury was the only town in the borough; Atcham, although itself only a village, was included in the name as a reflect ...

# St Albans #

The Wrekin The Wrekin is a hill in east Shropshire, England. It is located some five miles (8 km) west of Telford, on the border between the unitary authorities of Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin. Rising above the Shropshire Plain to a height of 4 ...

Wellingborough Wellingborough ( ) is a large market and commuter town in the unitary authority area of North Northamptonshire in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England, 65 miles from London and from Northampton on the north side of the River Nen ...

Welwyn Hatfield The Borough of Welwyn Hatfield is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in southern Hertfordshire, England, governed by Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council. It covers the two towns of Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield, Hertfordshire, ...

# Wimbledon ; from the Liberal Democrats # Devon West and Torridge # Guildford #

Ludlow Ludlow () is a market town in Shropshire, England. The town is significant in the history of the Welsh Marches and in relation to Wales. It is located south of Shrewsbury and north of Hereford, on the A49 road which bypasses the town. The ...

# Newbury #

Weston-super-Mare Weston-super-Mare, also known simply as Weston, is a seaside town in North Somerset, England. It lies by the Bristol Channel south-west of Bristol between Worlebury Hill and Bleadon Hill. It includes the suburbs of Mead Vale, Milton, Oldmix ...

Liberal Democrat Several political parties from around the world have been called the Liberal Democratic Party or Liberal Democrats. These parties usually follow a liberal democratic ideology. Active parties Former parties See also Liberal democracy Lib ...
gains

; from Labour # Birmingham Yardley # Brent East (in a

, retained) # Bristol West #

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a College town, university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cam ...

# Cardiff Central # Dunbartonshire East # Falmouth and Camborne # Hornsey and Wood Green # Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey # Leeds North West # Manchester Withington #

Rochdale Rochdale ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, northwest of Oldham and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough ...

; from the Conservatives #

Solihull Solihull (, or ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in West Midlands County, England. The town had a population of 126,577 at the 2021 Census. Solihull is situated on the River Blyth ...

Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the ...

# Westmorland and Lonsdale ; from Plaid Cymru #

Ceredigion Ceredigion ( , , ) is a county in the west of Wales, corresponding to the historic county of Cardiganshire. During the second half of the first millennium Ceredigion was a minor kingdom. It has been administered as a county since 1282. Cer ...

Scottish National Party (SNP) gains

; from Labour # Dundee East # Na h-Eileanan an Iar

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) gains

; from the Ulster Unionists # East Antrim # Lagan Valley # South Antrim # Upper Bann

Social Democrat and Labour Party (SDLP) gain

; from the Ulster Unionists # Belfast South

Sinn Féin Sinn Féin ( , ; en, " eOurselves") is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur G ...
gain

; from the SDLP # Newry and Armagh

Respect gain

; from Labour #

Bethnal Green and Bow Bethnal Green and Bow is a constituency in Greater London, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Rushanara Ali of the Labour Party. Boundaries Since the 2014 boundary changes, the constituency has contained the ...

Independent candidate gain

; from Labour # Blaenau Gwent Ø Indicates Scottish seat. Due to boundary changes, these are notional gains/losses. {{United Kingdom general election, 2005A 2005 United Kingdom general election Results of United Kingdom general elections by parliamentary constituency