2005 General Election

5 May 2005 · New Labour · 646 seats

Blair won a historic third Labour term with a reduced majority, the Iraq war having cut deep into the party's vote. Labour's 35.2% remains the lowest winning share ever converted into a comfortable majority.

Prime Minister before

Tony Blair

Labour

Prime Minister (continued)

Tony Blair

Labour

Government formed

Labour

majority of 65

Turnout

61.4%

electorate 44,245,939

The result

Labour
Tony Blair · 35.2%
355
seats
Conservative
Michael Howard · 32.4%
198
seats
Liberal Democrats
Charles Kennedy · 22.0%
62
seats

31 further seats went to parties and independents outside the main contenders listed above.

Turnout by nation

England

61.3%

Wales

62.6%

Scotland

60.8%

N. Ireland

62.9%

United Kingdom

61.4%

The result by constituency

All 646 constituencies on the 2005 boundaries, from the House of Commons Library dataset. Search, filter by country or region, and click any column heading to sort.

Highest turnout

80.2%

West Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Lowest turnout

37.2%

South Staffordshire, West Midlands

Biggest single-party share

75.5%

Labour, Bootle

Tightest main-family margin

0.1 pts

Crawley, South East

South East
Conservative 45.0% · most votes in 58Liberal / Lib Dem 25.4% · most votes in 6Labour 24.4% · most votes in 19Other 5.3%
83
seats · turnout 64.8%
North West
Conservative 28.7% · most votes in 9Liberal / Lib Dem 21.4% · most votes in 6Labour 45.1% · most votes in 61Other 4.8%
76
seats · turnout 57.4%
London
Conservative 31.9% · most votes in 21Liberal / Lib Dem 21.9% · most votes in 8Labour 38.9% · most votes in 44Other 7.3% · most votes in 1
74
seats · turnout 58.1%
West Midlands
Conservative 35.0% · most votes in 16Liberal / Lib Dem 18.6% · most votes in 3Labour 38.7% · most votes in 39Other 7.7% · most votes in 1
59
seats · turnout 60.5%
Scotland
Conservative 15.8% · most votes in 1Liberal / Lib Dem 22.6% · most votes in 11Labour 38.9% · most votes in 40SNP / Plaid Cymru 17.7% · most votes in 6Other 5.0% · most votes in 1
59
seats · turnout 60.5%
East of England
Conservative 43.3% · most votes in 40Liberal / Lib Dem 21.8% · most votes in 3Labour 29.8% · most votes in 13Other 5.0%
56
seats · turnout 63.9%
Yorkshire and the Humber
Conservative 29.1% · most votes in 9Liberal / Lib Dem 20.7% · most votes in 3Labour 43.6% · most votes in 44Other 6.6%
56
seats · turnout 58.9%
South West
Conservative 38.6% · most votes in 22Liberal / Lib Dem 32.6% · most votes in 16Labour 22.8% · most votes in 13Other 6.0%
51
seats · turnout 66.4%
East Midlands
Conservative 37.1% · most votes in 18Liberal / Lib Dem 18.5% · most votes in 1Labour 39.0% · most votes in 25Other 5.4%
44
seats · turnout 62.6%
Wales
Conservative 21.4% · most votes in 3Liberal / Lib Dem 18.4% · most votes in 4Labour 42.7% · most votes in 29SNP / Plaid Cymru 12.6% · most votes in 3Other 5.0% · most votes in 1
40
seats · turnout 62.4%
North East
Conservative 19.5% · most votes in 1Liberal / Lib Dem 23.3% · most votes in 1Labour 52.9% · most votes in 28Other 4.3%
30
seats · turnout 57.2%
Northern Ireland
Conservative 0.4%Other 99.6% · most votes in 18
18
seats · turnout 68.6%
646 of 646 constituencies
Aberavon
Labour
60.0%
Aberdeen North
Labour
42.5%
Aberdeen South
Labour
36.7%
Airdrie & Shotts
Labour
59.0%
Aldershot
Conservative
42.7%
Aldridge-Brownhills
Conservative
47.4%
Altrincham & Sale West
Conservative
46.4%
Alyn & Deeside
Labour
48.8%
Amber Valley
Labour
45.6%
Angus
SNP / Plaid Cymru
33.7%
Argyll & Bute
Liberal / Lib Dem
36.6%
Arundel & South Downs
Conservative
49.8%

The dataset groups candidates into five party families: Conservative (including Ulster Unionists before February 1974), the Liberal family (Liberal, SDP–Liberal Alliance, Liberal Democrats), Labour, SNP and Plaid Cymru, and all others combined. “Most votes” marks the family with the largest vote in each constituency, not necessarily the seat's winner: the Other column aggregates many parties.