2005–2010 Parliament of the United Kingdom
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Palace of Westminster in 2005
Overview
Legislative body	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Term	5 May 2005 (2005-05-05) – 12 April 2010 (2010-04-12)
Election	2005 United Kingdom general election
Government	Third Blair ministry (until 27 June 2007) Brown ministry (from 27 June 2007)
House of Commons
Members	646
Speaker	Michael Martin John Bercow
Leader	Geoff Hoon Jack Straw Harriet Harman
Prime Minister	Tony Blair Gordon Brown
Deputy Prime Minister	John Prescott
Leader of the Opposition	Michael Howard David Cameron
Third-party leader	Charles Kennedy Menzies Campbell Vince Cable Nick Clegg
House of Lords
Lord Chancellor / Lord Speaker	Baron Falconer of Thoroton The Baroness Hayman

This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election, held on 5 May. The list is arranged by constituency. New MPs elected since the general election and changes in party allegiance are noted at the bottom of the page.

During the 2005–2010 Parliament, Michael Martin and John Bercow served as Speaker of the Commons, Lady Hayman served as Lord Speaker, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown served as Prime Minister, and Michael Howard and David Cameron served as Leader of the Opposition. This Parliament was dissolved on 12 April 2010.

Composition of the 2005–2010 UK Parliament

These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in Parliament. The first show the composition immediately after the 2005 general election, and the second shows the composition before the 2010 general election.

Note: The Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru sit together as a party group, while Sinn Féin has not taken its seats. This is not the official seating plan of the House of Commons, which has five rows of benches on each side, with the government party to the right of the speaker and opposition parties to the left, but with room for only around two-thirds of MPs to sit at any one time.

Note: The effective Government majority is higher than the notional majority, because MPs from Sinn Féin do not take their seats due to their long-standing policy of abstentionism and vacant seats have no vote. Technically, the speakers belong to parties in a notional majority, though they do not usually vote and therefore don't figure in an effective majority.

List of MPs elected in the general election

The following table is a list of MPs elected on 5 May 2005, ordered by constituency. The previous MP and previous party column shows the MP and party holding the seat at dissolution on 11 April 2005.

Note that most Scottish constituency boundaries were considerably changed from the previous general election, due to a decrease in the number of Scottish seats from 72 to 59. In this case, the previous MPs cannot be shown, and the previous party column shows the notional winner of the new seat, based on analysis of the 2001 general election result.

Key to changes since general election:

^a = change in party allegiance

^b = by-election

Postponed poll

Wikinews has related news:

• UK Staffordshire South 2005 election postponed

• South Staffordshire - due to the death of a candidate standing both for parliament and a seat on the local council after some of the postal votes had been received, the elections in this constituency were postponed until 23 June 2005. Sir Patrick Cormack (Conservative), the incumbent Member of Parliament, retained his seat with an increased majority.

By-elections

Other changes

See also

• Results of the 2005 United Kingdom general election
• Members of the House of Lords
• List of MPs for Northern Ireland
• List of MPs for Scotland
• List of MPs for England
• List of MPs for Wales

References

External links

• Find out about your MP and how they have voted with The Guardian
• How Parliament's size has varied over the centuries