United Kingdom general election, 2005 (Wales)

United Kingdom general election, 2005

5 May 2005 (2005-05-05)

All 40 Welsh seats to the House of Commons

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Tony Blair	Charles Kennedy	Michael Howard
Party	Labour	Liberal Democrat	Conservative
Leader since	21 July 1994	9 August 1999	6 November 2003
Last election	34 Seats	2 Seats	0 Seats
Seats before	34	2	0
Seats won	29	4	3
Seat change	5	2	3
Popular vote	594,821	256,249	297,830
Percentage	42.7%	18.4%	21.4%
Swing	5.9%	4.6%	0.4%

		Fifth party

Leader		Ieuan Wyn Jones
Party		Plaid Cymru
Leader since		2000
Last election		4 Seats
Seats before		4
Seats won		3
Seat change		1
Popular vote		174,838
Percentage		12.6%

Prime Minister before election

Tony Blair
Labour

Subsequent Prime Minister

Tony Blair
Labour

These are the results of the United Kingdom general election, 2005 for the country of Wales. The election was held on 5 May 2010 and all 40 seats in Wales were contested.

Results

Below is a table summarising the results of the UK general election in Wales.^[1]

Party		MPs	+/-	Votes	%
	Labour Party	29	-5	594,821	42.7
	Conservative Party	3	+3	297,830	21.4
	Liberal Democrats	4	+2	256,249	18.4
	Plaid Cymru	3	-1	174,838	12.6
	UKIP	0	0	20,297	1.5
	Green Party	0	0	7,144	0.5
	Forward Wales	0	0	3,461	0.2
	Legalise Cannabis	0	0	1,772	0.1
	BNP	0	0	1,689	0.1
	Socialist Labour	0	0	1,605	0.1
	Veritas	0	0	1,437	0.1
	Respect Party	0	0	643	0.0
	Liberal	0	0	605	0.0
	Socialist Alliance	0	0	557	0.0
	Communist	0	0	440	0.0
	Yourself	0	0	284	0.0
	Bean Party	0	0	159	0.0
	Others	1	+1	28,888	2.3

References

↑ "Election 2005 | Results | Wales". BBC News. 2005-05-23. Retrieved 2011-11-04.

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