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Summary of the 5 May 2005 House of Commons of the United Kingdom election results
(parties with more than one seat; not including N. Ireland)
Party Seats Seats % Votes % Votes
Labour Party 355 56.5 36.1 9,552,436
Conservative Party 198 31.5 33.2 8,782,192
Liberal Democrats 62 9.9 22.6 5,985,454
Scottish National Party 6 1.0 1.6 412,267
Plaid Cymru 3 0.5 0.7 174,838
Others 4 0.6 5.7 1,523,716
Total 628 26,430,908


Ever since the last election we have been hearing about the conservatives shouldn't be in power because more people voted against them than for them. Why don't people just accept that they lost? What happened has always been so as can be evinced from the results above as an example.
Can we stop the "Oh it's not fair, we lost" thing? We never hear it when labour win.
Just get over it.

Brexit.....you lost ....get over it

The election ......you lost ......get over it

I wonder 🤔 which side of the political spectrum this poster falls into ?

Mmmmm

Anyway people don't vote tory to keep Labour out , the tories have always had a rump of the vote , its the floating voters and the combined opposition that generally do the tactical voting . Which is why a progressive alliance should have been formed as soon as thatcher got in .

This by election , for the first time in memory saw the liberals steal thousands of votes off the tories and it was all about HS2

It was the ultimate protest vote and come the general election that seat will go tory again

Its often said that you could put a red rosette on a donkey in some places and people would vote labour but the reverse is even more true , many times over in the south of England. Outside of London only Oxford East is staunchly anti tory . Even in Wales Monmouth, Cardiff North and several other seats are often occupied by the blue nasty party .