2005 United Kingdom general election in Edinburgh 2005 United Kingdom general election ← 2001 5 May 2005 2010 → ← outgoing membersMembers elected →All 5 Edinburgh 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 21 July 1994 18 December 2007 6 December 2005 Last election 4 Seats 1 Seats 0 Seats Seats before 4 1 0 Seats won 4 1 0 Seat change Popular vote 70,593 67,593 41,404 Percentage 33.0% 31.6% 19.3% Fourth party Leader Alex Salmond Party SNP Leader since 2004 Last election 0 Seats Seats before 0 Seats won 0 Seat change Popular vote 22,517 Percentage 10.5% Prime Minister before election Tony Blair Labour Subsequent Prime Minister Tony Blair Labour These are the results of the 2005 United Kingdom general election in the city of Edinburgh in Scotland. The 2005 general election was held on 5 May 2005 and four constituencies returned Labour Party MPs, with one returning a Liberal Democrat MP.[1] For individual results see results of the 2005 United Kingdom general election. Overall result[edit] Party MPs +/- Seats Contested Votes % +/- % Labour Party 4 5 70,593 33.0 Liberal Democrats 1 5 67,593 31.6 Conservative Party 0 5 41,404 19.3 Scottish National Party 0 5 22,517 10.5 Scottish Green Party 0 5 8,619 4.0 Scottish Socialist Party 0 5 3,181 1.5 UKIP 0 1 205 0.1 Death, Dungeons and Taxes Party 0 1 89 0.0 Communist League 0 1 37 0.0 Total 5 214,238 100.0 Results in Full[edit] Constituency Labour Party (UK) Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party Conservative Party (UK) Edinburgh East 15,899 (40.0%) 9,697 (24.4%) 6,760 (17.0%) 4,093 (10.3%) Edinburgh North and Leith 14,597 (34.2%) 12,444 (29.2%) 4,344 (10.2%) 7,969 (18.7%) Edinburgh South 14,188 (33.2%) 13,783 (32.3%) 2,635 (6.2%) 10,291 (24.1%) Edinburgh South West 17,476 (39.8%) 9,252 (21.1%) 4,654 (10.6%) 10,234 (23.3%) Edinburgh West 8,433 (18.6%) 22,417 (49.5%) 4,124 (9.1%) 8,817 (19.5%) References[edit] ^ "BBC NEWS | Election 2005 | Results | Scotland". vte2005 United Kingdom general election Constituency results Marginal constituencies MPs elected Opinion polling Parties Pre-election Results breakdown Incumbent prime minister: Tony Blair (Labour) Appointed prime minister: Tony Blair (Labour) Parties elected to the House of Commonsand their leaders Tony Blair (Labour) Michael Howard (Conservative) Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrats) Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist Party) Alex Salmond (Scottish National Party) Gerry Adams (Sinn Féin) Ieuan Wyn Jones (Plaid Cymru) Mark Durkan (Social Democratic and Labour Party) Richard Taylor (Health Concern) George Galloway (Respect) David Trimble (Ulster Unionist Party) Results by area England (list) Northern Ireland (list) Scotland (list) (Edinburgh) Wales (list) MPs by party Conservative Democratic Unionist Labour Labour and Labour Co-operative Labour Co-operative Liberal Democrat Scottish Nationalist See also Reg Keys Peter Law Vote-OK 2005 United Kingdom local elections
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