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

Elections contested Elections won

Constituency Electorate Turnout Votes Vote share Majority
Bath 60,023 69.1% 18,845 45.4% 5,624
Bristol West 70,819 63.6% 17,599 39.1% 1,147
Camborne and Redruth 61,035 63.2% 13,830 35.9% 2,733
Cheltenham 76,704 62.5% 18,877 39.4% 316
Chippenham 69,443 66.9% 19,704 42.4% 2,183
Mid Dorset and North Poole 62,730 72.1% 22,596 50.0% 5,931
Newton Abbot 66,766 68.9% 20,967 45.6% 4,830
North Cornwall 65,257 64.5% 17,812 42.3% 2,892
North Devon 72,171 68.3% 22,869 46.4% 5,276
Somerton and Frome 77,035 69.3% 23,341 43.8% 595
South East Cornwall 68,856 67.7% 21,795 46.8% 5,485
St Austell and Newquay 70,872 64.9% 21,747 47.3% 5,723
St Ives 64,459 67.8% 22,651 51.8% 10,711
Taunton Deane 81,767 69.3% 25,159 44.4% 1,868
Thornbury and Yate 64,045 73.6% 25,622 54.3% 11,060
Torbay 75,272 60.2% 18,943 41.8% 2,727
Truro and Falmouth 65,288 65.1% 17,406 41.0% 3,931
Yeovil 79,306 63.9% 26,076 51.5% 8,779

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.

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.