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United Kingdom general election, 2005
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All 4 Bristol seats to the House of Commons
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Tony Blair Charles Kennedy Michael Howard
Party Labour Liberal Democrats Conservative
Leader since 1994 1999 2003
Last election 4 seats 0 seats 0 Seats
Seats before 4 0 0
Seats won 3 1 0
Seat change -1 +1 none
Popular vote 78,980 51,699 45,912
Percentage 41.80 27.36 24.30%
Prime Minister before election

Tony Blair
Labour

Subsequent Prime Minister

Tony Blair
Labour

These are the results of the United Kingdom general election, 2005 in the city of Bristol in England. The 2005 General Election was held on May 6, 2010. The Labour Party continued to do well, winning 3 out of the 4 Bristol seats, but lost the other to the Liberal Democrats.


For individual results see Results of the United Kingdom general election, 2010.

Overall result

Party MPs +/- Seats Contested Votes % +/- %
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Party 3 -1 4 78,980 41.80
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats 1 +1 4 51,699 27.36
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Party 4 45,912 24.30
bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | Green 3 5,876 3.11
bgcolor="Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color" | United Kingdom Independence Party 4 4,024 2.12
bgcolor="Template:English Democrats/meta/color" | English Democrats 1 828 0.43 N/A
Socialist Alliance 1 565 0.29 N/A
Respect 1 532 0.28 N/A
Socialist Labour Party 1 329 0.17 N/A
bgcolor="Template:Independent/meta/color" | Save Bristol Baths 1 190 0.10 N/A

Seat by seat

Constituency Party MP Majority Result Swing
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Bristol North West Labour Doug Naysmith 8,962 Conservative gain from Labour 2.3% from Labour to Conservative
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Bristol West Liberal Democrat Stephen Williams align="right" 5,128 Lib Dem gain from Labour 8.4% from Labour to Lib Dems
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Bristol South Labour Dawn Primarolo |11,142 Labour Party hold 7.9% from Labour to Liberal Democrats
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Bristol East Labour Kerry McCarthy 8,621 Labour Party hold 8.6% from Labour to Liberal Democrats


See also

References

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