Notional results for a UK general election on 5 May 2005 South West, England - Elections contested by Liberal Democrat

Constituency Electorate Turnout Votes Vote share Position
Bath 60,023 69.1% 18,845 45.4% 1st
Bournemouth East 70,952 59.0% 13,075 31.3% 2nd
Bournemouth West 67,955 53.9% 11,710 32.0% 2nd
Bridgwater and West Somerset 79,643 64.0% 11,545 22.6% 3rd
Bristol East 67,036 63.0% 8,318 19.7% 3rd
Bristol North West 71,024 68.8% 12,138 24.8% 3rd
Bristol South 74,520 59.0% 10,436 23.7% 2nd
Bristol West 70,819 63.6% 17,599 39.1% 1st
Camborne and Redruth 61,035 63.2% 13,830 35.9% 1st
Central Devon 67,121 69.8% 18,179 38.8% 2nd
Cheltenham 76,704 62.5% 18,877 39.4% 1st
Chippenham 69,443 66.9% 19,704 42.4% 1st
Christchurch 66,535 70.3% 11,246 24.0% 2nd
Devizes 65,563 65.3% 9,549 22.3% 3rd
East Devon 70,105 68.0% 13,367 28.0% 2nd
Exeter 77,049 64.3% 10,376 20.9% 3rd
Filton and Bradley Stoke 66,042 62.4% 11,703 28.4% 3rd
Forest of Dean 67,241 70.8% 8,185 17.2% 3rd
Gloucester 74,918 62.5% 6,409 13.7% 3rd
Kingswood 64,530 69.2% 8,054 18.0% 3rd
Mid Dorset and North Poole 62,730 72.1% 22,596 50.0% 1st
Newton Abbot 66,766 68.9% 20,967 45.6% 1st
North Cornwall 65,257 64.5% 17,812 42.3% 1st
North Devon 72,171 68.3% 22,869 46.4% 1st
North Dorset 70,632 69.3% 18,521 37.8% 2nd
North East Somerset 64,934 71.5% 9,096 19.6% 3rd
North Somerset 72,098 71.8% 15,624 30.2% 2nd
North Swindon 70,415 60.8% 5,502 12.9% 3rd
North Wiltshire 64,580 69.5% 15,433 34.4% 2nd
Plymouth, Moor View 68,574 58.3% 7,583 19.0% 3rd
Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport 72,505 55.5% 9,102 22.6% 3rd
Poole 65,891 64.0% 12,261 29.1% 2nd
Salisbury 66,311 68.5% 12,225 26.9% 2nd
Somerton and Frome 77,035 69.3% 23,341 43.8% 1st
South Dorset 70,002 69.4% 7,647 15.7% 3rd
South East Cornwall 68,856 67.7% 21,795 46.8% 1st
South Swindon 72,284 59.0% 7,244 17.0% 3rd
South West Devon 68,789 68.2% 11,179 23.8% 3rd
South West Wiltshire 70,349 64.6% 13,753 30.3% 2nd
St Austell and Newquay 70,872 64.9% 21,747 47.3% 1st
St Ives 64,459 67.8% 22,651 51.8% 1st
Stroud 76,677 70.1% 7,499 13.9% 3rd
Taunton Deane 81,767 69.3% 25,159 44.4% 1st
Tewkesbury 74,165 62.2% 13,108 28.4% 2nd
The Cotswolds 75,035 67.2% 14,165 28.1% 2nd
Thornbury and Yate 64,045 73.6% 25,622 54.3% 1st
Tiverton and Honiton 72,888 70.4% 14,954 29.1% 2nd
Torbay 75,272 60.2% 18,943 41.8% 1st
Torridge and West Devon 71,448 71.2% 18,788 36.9% 2nd
Totnes 67,039 69.7% 17,316 37.1% 2nd
Truro and Falmouth 65,288 65.1% 17,406 41.0% 1st
Wells 78,234 67.7% 20,031 37.8% 2nd
West Dorset 69,643 76.4% 22,302 41.9% 2nd
Weston-Super-Mare 74,571 65.7% 17,672 36.1% 2nd
Yeovil 79,306 63.9% 26,076 51.5% 1st

Turnout as calculated by the House of Commons Library, is the total number of votes cast and not spoiled, divided by the size of the electorate.

Under section 13(b) of the Representation of the People Act 1985, a candidate gaining 5% or less of the vote share will forfeit their deposit.

Estimates of the 2005 general election result in new constituencies

Professors Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, at The Elections Centre of the University of Exeter, produced estimates of the 2005 general election result as if the new constituencies recommended by the separate Parliamentary Boundary Commissions for England, Wales and Northern Ireland had then been in existence.