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    The 2005 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 5 May 2005, to elect 646 members to the House of Commons. The governing Labour Party, led...
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  • The next United Kingdom general election must be held no later than 28 January 2025. It will determine the composition of the House of Commons, which...
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    The 2001 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 June 2001, four years after the previous election on 1 May 1997, to elect 659 members to...
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  • This is a list of United Kingdom general elections (elections for the UK House of Commons) since the first in 1802. The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament...
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    The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 1 May 1997. The governing Conservative Party led by Prime Minister John Major was defeated...
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    The 2017 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 8 June 2017, two years after the previous general election in 2015; it was the first since...
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    The 1886 United Kingdom general election took place from 1 to 27 July 1886, following the defeat of the Government of Ireland Bill 1886. It resulted in...
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    The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 June 1983. It gave the Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher the...
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    A general election was held in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2005 and all 59 seats in Scotland were contested. This was the first election to occur under...
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    The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first to be held after a full term of a majority Labour government. The general election was held on Thursday...
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  • has related news: Results of 2005 United Kingdom General Election The results of the 2005 United Kingdom general election, by parliamentary constituency...
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    The 1906 United Kingdom general election was held from 12 January to 8 February 1906. The Liberals, led by Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman, won...
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    The 2010 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 May 2010, with 45,597,461 registered voters entitled to vote to elect members to the House...
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    the House of Commons General Election 2005 report. The 2005 United Kingdom general election in England took place on 5 May 2005 for 529 English seats...
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    1955 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election in 1951. It was a snap election: after...
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    independent candidate in the forthcoming general election. Results of the 2005 United Kingdom general election Members of the House of Lords List of MPs...
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    The 1970 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 18 June 1970. It resulted in a surprise victory for the Conservative Party under leader...
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    The 1865 United Kingdom general election saw the Liberals, led by Lord Palmerston, increase their large majority over the Earl of Derby's Conservatives...
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    These are the results of the 2005 United Kingdom general election in Wales. The election was held on 5 May 2005 and all 40 seats in Wales were contested...
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    The 1959 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 8 October 1959. It marked a third consecutive victory for the ruling Conservative Party...
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    1974 United Kingdom general election took place on Thursday 10 October 1974 to elect 635 members of the House of Commons. It was the second general election...
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  • In the run up to the general election of 2005, several polling organisations carried out opinion polling in regards to voting intention in Great Britain...
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    The 1992 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 April 1992, to elect 651 members to the House of Commons. The election resulted in the...
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  • Two elections in the United Kingdom took place on 5 May 2005: General Election for MPs at Westminster Local elections in England and Northern Ireland...
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    The December 1910 United Kingdom general election was held from 3 to 19 December. It was the last general election to be held over several days and the...
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    The 2005 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 5 May 2005 and all 18 seats in Northern Ireland were contested. 1,139,993 people...
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