2005 United Kingdom general election results in Northern Ireland

United Kingdom general election, 2005

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5 May 2005 (2005-05-05)
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All 18 Northern Irish seats to the House of Commons

	First party	Second party

Leader	Ian Paisley	Gerry Adams
Party	Democratic Unionist	Sinn Féin
Leader since	30 September 1971	13 November 1983
Last election	5 Seats	4 Seats
Seats before	5	4
Seats won	9	5
Seat change	4	1
Popular vote	241,856	174,530
Percentage	33.7%	24.3%
Swing	11.2%	2.6%

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	David Trimble	Mark Durkan
Party	Ulster Unionist	SDLP
Leader since	28 August 1995	2001
Last election	6 Seats	3 Seats
Seats before	6	3
Seats won	1	3
Seat change	5	0
Popular vote	127,414	125,626
Percentage	17.8%	17.5%
Swing	9.0%	3.5%

Colours on map indicate winning party for each constituency.

Prime Minister before election

Tony Blair
Labour

Subsequent Prime Minister

Tony Blair
Labour

These are the results of the United Kingdom general election, 2005 for the country of Northern Ireland. The election was held on 5 May 2005 and all 18 seats in Northern Ireland were contested. The election resulted in the Ulster Unionist Party losing its place as the largest political party in Northern Ireland, being replaced by the Democratic Unionist Party, with the UUP leader, David Trimble, also losing his seat of Upper Bann to the DUP. Both the DUP and Sinn Féin increased their share of the vote as well as their number of seats. The Social Democratic and Labour Party with its new leader, Mark Durkan, were unable to regain their formerly-held status as the largest Nationalist political party in Northern Ireland, though they retained 3 seats overall, albeit with a reduced share of the vote.

Results

Below is a table summarising the results of the 2005 UK general election in Northern Ireland.^[1]

Party		MPs	+/-	Votes	%
	DUP	9	+4	241,856	33.7
	Sinn Féin	5	+1	174,530	24.3
	UUP	1	-5	127,414	17.8
	SDLP	3	0	125,626	17.5
	Alliance	0	0	28,291	3.9
	Conservative	0	0	2,718	0.4
	Workers' Party	0	0	1,669	0.2
	Socialist Environmental Alliance	0	0	1,649	0.2
	Vote For Yourself	0	0	890	0.1
	Others	0	0	12,959	1.9

References

^ "Election 2005 | Results | Northern Ireland". BBC News. 2005-05-23. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/region_6.stm. Retrieved 2011-11-03.