South East: 2005 general election results

How South East voted at the 2005 general election: the Conservatives won 58 of 83 seats with 45.0% of the vote. Every constituency result.

42 for a majority

Con58
Lab19
LD6

South East: results by party
Party	Seats	Change	Votes	Share	Change	Candidates
Conservative	58	+5	1,754,249	45.0%	+2.1	83
Labour	19	−3	951,323	24.4%	−5.0	83
Liberal Democrats	6	−2	990,480	25.4%	+1.7	83
Others	0	0	205,505	5.3%	+1.2	83

Change compared with the 2001 general election in South East.

Constituencies

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Constituency	Winner	Majority	%	Turnout
Aldershot	Con	5,334	11.1	62.0%
Arundel and South Downs	Con	11,309	22.8	69.3%
Ashford	Con	13,298	25.7	65.5%
Aylesbury	Con	11,067	21.5	63.1%
Banbury	Con	10,797	19.2	64.5%
Basingstoke	Con	4,680	9.7	63.6%
Beaconsfield	Con	15,253	35.1	64.4%
Bexhill and Battle	Con	13,449	28.7	67.2%
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton	Con	7,822	19.2	63.3%
Bracknell	Con	12,036	23.5	63.4%
Brighton Kemptown	Lab	2,737	6.9	60.2%
Brighton Pavilion	Lab	4,885	11.2	64.1%
Buckingham	Con	18,129	37.5	69.4%
Canterbury	Con	7,471	15.7	66.4%
Chatham and Aylesford	Lab	2,332	5.5	60.7%
Chesham and Amersham	Con	13,798	29.3	67.7%
Chichester	Con	10,860	20.7	66.3%
Crawley	Lab	37	0.1	58.2%
Dartford	Lab	706	1.5	63.6%
Dover	Lab	4,941	10.3	67.5%
East Hampshire	Con	5,509	10.4	67.2%
East Surrey	Con	15,921	32.3	66.3%
East Worthing and Shoreham	Con	8,183	18.4	62.1%
Eastbourne	Con	1,124	2.3	68.7%
Eastleigh	LD	568	1.1	65.2%
Epsom and Ewell	Con	16,447	33.0	66.1%
Esher and Walton	Con	7,727	16.1	64.2%
Fareham	Con	11,702	24.1	66.4%
Faversham and Mid Kent	Con	8,720	20.0	65.9%
Folkestone and Hythe	Con	11,680	24.1	69.3%
Gillingham	Lab	254	0.6	63.9%
Gosport	Con	5,730	13.3	61.2%
Gravesham	Con	654	1.5	65.5%
Guildford	Con	347	0.7	68.4%
Hastings and Rye	Lab	2,026	4.7	58.7%
Havant	Con	6,508	15.7	60.7%
Henley	Con	12,793	27.5	68.8%
Horsham	Con	12,627	23.2	68.1%
Hove	Lab	420	0.9	64.4%
Isle of Wight	Con	12,978	19.4	61.7%
Lewes	LD	8,474	18.2	69.9%
Maidenhead	Con	6,231	13.6	71.1%
Maidstone and the Weald	Con	14,856	30.5	65.6%
Medway	Lab	213	0.5	62.7%
Mid Sussex	Con	5,890	11.9	70.0%
Milton Keynes South West	Lab	4,010	8.2	61.0%
Mole Valley	Con	11,997	24.3	71.5%
New Forest East	Con	6,551	14.5	66.2%
New Forest West	Con	17,285	37.5	66.8%
Newbury	Con	3,460	6.3	72.8%
North East Hampshire	Con	12,549	26.5	65.2%
North East Milton Keynes	Con	1,665	3.3	64.5%
North Thanet	Con	7,634	17.5	60.3%
North West Hampshire	Con	13,264	25.9	64.9%
Oxford East	Lab	963	2.3	58.2%
Oxford West and Abingdon	LD	7,683	14.6	66.2%
Portsmouth North	Lab	1,139	3.0	60.5%
Portsmouth South	LD	3,362	8.3	58.3%
Reading East	Con	475	1.1	58.6%
Reading West	Lab	4,682	11.1	60.0%
Reigate	Con	10,988	25.8	64.6%
Romsey	LD	125	0.3	70.6%
Runnymede and Weybridge	Con	12,349	28.4	60.0%
Sevenoaks	Con	12,970	30.0	66.9%
Sittingbourne and Sheppey	Lab	79	0.2	65.4%
Slough	Lab	7,851	21.2	53.7%
South Thanet	Lab	664	1.6	64.8%
South West Surrey	Con	5,711	10.9	72.0%
Southampton Itchen	Lab	9,302	21.5	54.5%
Southampton Test	Lab	7,018	16.8	57.1%
Spelthorne	Con	9,936	23.2	62.5%
Surrey Heath	Con	10,845	22.7	63.7%
Tonbridge and Malling	Con	13,352	29.0	68.8%
Tunbridge Wells	Con	9,988	23.5	65.7%
Wantage	Con	8,017	15.4	68.8%
Wealden	Con	15,921	28.6	67.7%
Winchester	LD	7,476	12.1	73.1%
Windsor	Con	10,292	23.6	63.7%
Witney	Con	14,156	26.3	69.6%
Woking	Con	6,612	14.4	63.1%
Wokingham	Con	7,240	15.7	68.4%
Worthing West	Con	9,379	20.9	62.5%
Wycombe	Con	7,051	15.9	62.2%

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Questions and answers

Who won in South East at the 2005 general election?

The Conservatives won 58 of the 83 seats in South East, with 45.0% of the vote.

How many seats were there in South East in 2005?

83 constituencies.

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