UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS OF 5 MAY 2005 ============================================================================== Elections to the House of Commons Source: media websites NATIONAL SUMMARY OF VOTES AND SEATS ============================================================================== Votes and seats are compared with the election of June 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enrolled voters: 44,245,939 Valid votes: 27,148,510 61.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Party Votes % Change Seats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conservative Party 8,784,915 32.3 +00.6 198 +33 Democratic Unionist Party 241,856 00.9 +00.2 9 +04 Greens 283,414 01.0 - Labour Party 9,567,589 35.2 -05.5 356 -47 Liberal Democrats 5,985,454 22.1 +03.8 62 +11 Plaid Cymru 174,838 00.7 00.0 3 -01 Scottish National Party 412,267 01.5 -00.3 6 +02 Sinn Fein 174,530 00.6 -00.1 5 +01 Soc Dem and Labour Party 125,626 00.5 -00.1 3 UK Independence Party 605,973 02.2 +00.7 - Ulster Unionist Party 127,314 00.5 -00.3 1 -05 Others 946,172 3 +02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 27,148,510 646 -13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The number of seats won by each party is baed on a notional comparison with the results in 2001 taking into account the new constituency boundaries in Scotland, which reduced the size of the House of Commons by 13 seats. The Labour seat and vote total includes the Speaker, who technically ran as an independent.