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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 sat together as a party group, while Sinn Féin did not take 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 was higher than the notional majority, because MPs from Sinn Féin did 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:

= change in party allegiance

= by-election

Postponed poll

• 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

Defections, suspensions, resignations and deaths

Progression of Government majority and party totals

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

1. "UK Parliament - List of Members of Parliament by Party". Archived from the original on 23 February 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
2. "Co-operative Party Papers". Archives Hub. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
3. ^ "Speaker quits 'for sake of unity'". 19 May 2009. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
4. "Lib Dem MP dies of cancer aged 56". 29 May 2005. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
5. Hinsliff, Gaby; Townsend, Mark; Bentham, Martin (7 August 2005). "Robin Cook dies after collapse on mountain". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
6. "Labour MP dies after long illness". 6 January 2006. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
7. "MP Peter Law dies". The Guardian. Press Association. 25 April 2006. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
8. Tempest, Matthew (18 May 2006). "Eric Forth MP dies aged 61". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
9. Mulholland, Hélène (20 June 2007). "Labour MP Piara Khabra dies". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
10. "Conservative MP defects to Labour". 27 June 2007. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
11. "Deselected Wareing to quit Labour". 17 September 2007. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
12. "Tory whip withdrawn from Conway". 28 December 2017 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
13. "Ex-Tory MP Spink defects to UKIP". 22 April 2008 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
14. "Veteran Labour MP Dunwoody dies". 18 April 2008. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
15. "Labour MP dies after heart attack". 27 December 2009. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
16. "Iris Robinson 'to go within week'". 9 January 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
17. "MP Hermon quits Ulster Unionists". 25 March 2010 – via news.bbc.co.uk.

External links

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

• 2005 United Kingdom general election
• Lists of MPs elected in United Kingdom general elections
• Lists of UK MPs 2005–2010
• 2005-related lists