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2005 United Kingdom general election
← 2001 5 May 2005 2010 →
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 Steady Steady Steady
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 Steady
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.

For individual results see Results of the 2005 United Kingdom general election.

Overall result

Party MPs +/- Seats Contested Votes % +/- %
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Party 4 Steady 5 70,593 33.0
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats 1 Steady 5 67,593 31.6
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Party 0 Steady 5 41,404 19.3
bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | Scottish National Party 0 Steady 5 22,517 10.5
bgcolor="Template:Scottish Green Party/meta/color" | Scottish Green Party 0 Steady 5 8,619 4.0
bgcolor="Template:Scottish Socialist Party/meta/color" | Scottish Socialist Party 0 Steady 5 3,181 1.5
bgcolor="Template:UKIP/meta/color" | UKIP 0 Steady 1 205 0.1
Death, Dungeons and Taxes Party 0 Steady 1 89 0.0
bgcolor="Template:Communist League (UK, 1988)/meta/color" | Communist League 0 Steady 1 37 0.0
Total 5 Steady 214,238 100.0

Results in Full

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

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