UK 2005 Election numbers

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Seats won with a majority of the vote

Labour: 140
Conservative: 54
Liberal Democrats: 16
Democratic Unionist: 3
Peter Law: 1
Plaid Cymru: 1
Scottish National: 1
Sinn Fein: 1
The Speaker: 1
Ulster Unionist: 1

Seats won with a plurality

Conservative: 144
Labour: 115
Liberal Democrats: 46
Democratic Unionist: 6
Scottish National: 5
Sinn Fein: 4
Social Democratic & Labour: 3
Plaid Cymru: 2
Health Concern: 1
Respect: 1

Parties that lost the highest percentage of their deposits (if you get over 5%, you get your deposit back)

English Democrats: lost 24 of 24 deposits
Rainbow Dream Ticket: lost 23 of 23 deposits
Veritas: lost 64 of 65 deposits
Socialist Labor: lost 48 of 49 deposits
Scottish Socialists: lost 56 of 58 deposits
UK Independence: lost 458 of 496 deposits
Greens: lost 179 of 203 deposits

Labour didn't lose a single deposit. The Conservatives lost 5 deposits.

Five best seats for (with the party that won in paratheses and their percentage)

Respect

Bethnal Green & Bow: 35.9% (They won here, remember?)
Birmingham Sparkrook & Small Heath: 27.5% (Labour 36%)
East Ham: 20.7% (Labour 54%)
West Ham: 19.5% (Labour 51%)
Poplar & Canning Town: 16.8% (Labour 40%)

The Greens

Brighton Pavilion: 21.9% (Labour 35%)
Lewisham Deptford: 11.1% (Labour 56%)
Hackney North & Stoke Newington: 9.9% (Labour 49%)
Holborn & St. Pancras: 8.1% (Labour 43%)
Glasgow North: 7.6% (Labour 39%)

The BNP

Barking: 17% (Labour 48%)
Dewsbury: 13.1% (Labour 41%)
Burnley: 10.3% (Labour 38%)
West Bromwich West: 9.9% (Labour 54%)
Dudley North: 9.7% (Labour 44%)

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The Conservatives won the popular vote in England by a 35.74/35.46 margin, which was good for 194 seats. Labour won 286 seats there.

The Conservatives lost 1 deposit in Scotland, 1 in Wales, and 3 in Northern Ireland.

The LibDems lost 1 deposit in Wales.

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The Conservatives should find some way to connect themselves with the parties that want more local control.

But, they're not quite thought of fondly by Nationalists. I think.

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Well, maybe some of the more rational Kippers (UKIP) can form a party with that POV.

Granted. The UKIP isn't for local control, and the BNP wants to reunify with Ireland.

But there might be 20 or so "local control" conservatives out there.

I think PC and SNP are also both liberal parties.

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How they put it

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