List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 2005

This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 2005 general election, held on 5 May 2005.

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.

Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband, Ed Balls, Michael Gove, Chris Huhne, Sadiq Khan, Danny Alexander, Jeremy Hunt, Justine Greening, James Brokenshire, David Mundell, Jeremy Wright, David Gauke, Stephen Crabb, Theresa Villiers, Greg Clark, Greg Hands, Mark Harper, Chris Huhne, Kerry McCarthy, Maria Miller, David Jones, Natascha Engel, Grant Shapps, Tim Farron, Mark Durkan, Emily Thornberry, Peter Bone, Philip Hollobone, and Alasdair McDonnell.

Composition

Note: The effective Government majority is higher than the notional majority, because Sinn Féin's MPs do not take their seats due to their 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.

Graphical representation of the House of Commons

This is a comparison of the party strengths in the British House of Commons (as of 15 December 2009):

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 actually 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.

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

2005

• 14 July: Cheadle — Mark Hunter (Lib Dem), to replace Patsy Calton (Lib Dem) who died on 29 May
• 29 September: Livingston — Jim Devine (Lab), to replace Robin Cook (Lab) who died on 6 August

2006

• 9 February: Dunfermline and West Fife — Willie Rennie (Lib Dem), to replace Rachel Squire (Lab), who died on 5 January
• 29 June: Blaenau Gwent — Dai Davies (Ind), to replace Peter Law (Ind) who died on 25 April
• 29 June: Bromley and Chislehurst — Bob Neill (Con), to replace Eric Forth (Con) who died on 17 May

2007

• 19 July: Ealing Southall — Virendra Sharma (Lab) to replace Piara Khabra (Lab) who died on 19 June
• 19 July: Sedgefield — Phil Wilson (Lab) to replace Tony Blair (Lab), who resigned to take up a new role as Middle East Envoy

2008

• 22 May: Crewe and Nantwich — Edward Timpson (Con) to replace Gwyneth Dunwoody (Lab) who died on 17 April
• 26 June: Henley — John Howell (Con) to replace Boris Johnson (Con), who resigned after being elected Mayor of London.^[2]
• 10 July: Haltemprice and Howden — David Davis (Con) resigned to stand for re-election, in protest over the Government's policy of detaining terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge
• 24 July: Glasgow East — John Mason (SNP) to replace David Marshall (Lab) who resigned due to ill health
• 6 November: Glenrothes — Lindsay Roy (Lab) to replace John MacDougall (Lab), who died on 13 August

2009

• 23 July: Norwich North - Chloe Smith (Con) to replace Ian Gibson (Lab), who resigned after a Labour Party panel prohibited him from standing for re-election.
• 12 November: Glasgow North East - Willie Bain (Lab) to replace Michael Martin (Speaker), who resigned during the 2009 expenses scandal.

Other changes

2006

• Clare Short (Birmingham Ladywood) — resigned the Labour whip on 20 October 2006 and became Independent Labour.

2007

• Quentin Davies (Grantham and Stamford) — defected from Conservative to Labour on 26 June.
• Bob Wareing (Liverpool West Derby) — resigned the Labour whip and became an Independent from 16 September 2007.
• Andrew Pelling (Croydon Central) — suspended from Conservative party and sat as an Independent Conservative from 18 September 2007, and as an Independent from October 2008.

2008

• Derek Conway (Old Bexley and Sidcup) — Conservative whip withdrawn on 29 January after allegations of corruption.^[3]
• Bob Spink (Castle Point) — defected from Conservative to UKIP on 21 April 2008.^[4]

2009

• John Bercow (Buckingham) — Conservative elected Speaker on 22 June
• David Taylor (North West Leicestershire) died on 26 December, seat vacant at dissolution

2010

• Iris Robinson (Strangford) — resigned her seat on 18 January,^[5] seat vacant at dissolution
• David Chaytor (Bury North) — Labour whip suspended on 8 February due to criminal charges over the expenses scandal.
• Jim Devine (Livingston — Labour whip suspended on 8 February due to criminal charges over the expenses scandal.
• Elliot Morley (Scunthorpe) — Labour whip suspended on 8 February due to criminal charges over the expenses scandal.
• Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) died on 15 March, seat vacant at dissolution
• Sylvia Hermon (North Down) — resigned from the Ulster Unionist Party on 25 March in order to stand as an independent candidate in the forthcoming general election.^[6]

See also

• Results of the United Kingdom general election, 2005
• 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