United Kingdom general election, 2005 (Bristol)

United Kingdom general election, 2005

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 Democrat 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 ±0 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 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	%	+/- %
	Labour Party	3	-1	4	78,980	41.80
	Liberal Democrats	1	+1	4	51,699	27.36
	Conservative Party			4	45,912	24.30
	Green			3	5,876	3.11
	United Kingdom Independence Party			4	4,024	2.12
	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
	Save Bristol Baths			1	190	0.10	N/A

Seat by seat

Constituency		Party	MP	Majority	Result	Swing
	Bristol North West	Labour	Doug Naysmith	8,962	Labour hold	2.3% from Labour to Conservative
	Bristol West	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Williams	5,128	Lib Dem gain from Labour	8.4% from Labour to Lib Dems
	Bristol South	Labour	Dawn Primarolo	|11,142	Labour Party hold	7.9% from Labour to Liberal Democrats
	Bristol East	Labour	Kerry McCarthy	8,621	Labour Party hold	8.6% from Labour to Liberal Democrats

See also

• Bristol
• 2010 United Kingdom general election results in Bristol
• Bristol City Council elections, 2010
• History of local government in Bristol
• Politics of Bristol
• Constituencies surrounding Bristol
• Next United Kingdom general election

References

 Summary of the 5 May 2005 House of Commons of the United Kingdom election results

Parties This table indicates those parties with over 500 votes nationwide		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net Gain/Loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/–
	Labour	356	0	47	–47	55.2	35.3	9,562,122	–5.4%
	Conservative	198	36	3	+33	30.7	32.3	8,772,598	+0.6%
	Liberal Democrat	62	16	5	+11	9.6	22.1	5,981,874	+3.7%
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0	2.2	603,298	+0.8%
	SNP	6	2	0	+2	0.9	1.5	412,267	–0.3%
	Green	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	257,758	+0.4%
	DUP	9	4	0	+4	1.4	0.9	241,856	+0.2%
	BNP	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	192,746	+0.5%
	Plaid Cymru	3	0	1	–1	0.5	0.6	174,838	–0.1%
	Sinn Féin	5	1	0	+1	0.8	0.6	174,530	–0.1%
	UUP	1	0	5	–5	0.2	0.5	127,414	–0.3%
	SDLP	3	1	1	0	0.5	0.5	125,626	–0.1%
	Blaenau Gwent PV	1	1	0	0	0.2	0.5	122,000	+0.1%
	Respect	1	1	0	+1	0.2	0.3	68,094	N/A
	Health Concern	1	0	0	0	0.2	0.1	18,739	0.0%
	Other	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	274,967	0.0%
Total		646						27,110,727