2005 United Kingdom general election result in Essex

2001 results in Essex | Constituencies in Essex | 2009/10 results in Essex

Results by constituency for the United Kingdom general election, 2005 in the county of Essex.

Overall results

Party		MPs	+/-	Votes	%	+/-%
	Conservative Party	13	+2	359,535	46.0	+3.6
	Labour Party	3	−2	226,313	28.9	−5.7
	Liberal Democrats	1		149,310	19.1	+1.9
	UKIP	0		26,686	3.4	+0.8
	British National Party	0		7,744	1.0	NA
	Green Party	0		6,633	0.8	+0.3
	English Democrats Party	0		2,702	0.3	NA
	Veritas	0		1,416	0.2	NA
	Respect	0		477	0.1	NA
	Others	0		1,388	0.2	−2.1
Turnout				782,204	62.4	+2.9

Constituency		Party	MP	Majority
	Basildon	Labour Co-operative	Angela Smith	3,142
	Billericay	Conservative	John Baron	11,206
	Braintree	Conservative	Brooks Newmark	3,893
	Brentwood and Ongar	Conservative	Eric Pickles	11,612
	Castle Point	Conservative	Bob Spink	8,201
	Colchester	Liberal Democrats	Bob Russell	6,277
	Epping Forest	Conservative	Eleanor Laing	14,358
	Harlow	Labour	Bill Rammell	97
	Harwich	Conservative	Douglas Carswell	920
	Maldon and East Chelmsford	Conservative	John Whittingdale	12,573
	North Essex	Conservative	Bernard Jenkin	10,903
	Rayleigh	Conservative	Mark Francois	14,726
	Rochford and Southend East	Conservative	James Duddridge	5,490
	Saffron Walden	Conservative	Alan Haselhurst	13,008
	Southend West	Conservative	David Amess	8,959
	Thurrock	Labour	Andrew MacKinlay	6,375
	West Chelmsford	Conservative	Simon Burns	9,620

Predicted Results for 2009/10

If there is a Conservative overall majority, which will take approximately a 6.35% swing from Labour to Conservative (with the Lib Dems vote not changing) the following seats will change hands.

Constituency		Party	Majority
	Basildon	Conservative	2,330
	Harlow	Conservative	4,967

If there was a swing of 6.35% from Conservative to Labour, then the following seas would chang hands.

Constituency		Party	Majority
	Braintree	Labour	2,865
	Harwich	Labour	5,494