UK general election, 2005

May 5, 2005

The 2005 UK general election was held on Thursday 5th May. The election resulted in a third term for Tony Blair's Labour Party.

Below are the latest Wikinews stories on the campaigning parties and candidates.

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 * Exit polls are showing a 2.8% swing from Labour to Conservatives.
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 * Immigration and asylum turn voters off UK Tories, according to opinion polls.
 * UK Party leaders questioned on BBC 'Question Time'
 * Potential Goldsmith leak worries Labour, excites opposition
 * Lib Dems launch manifesto, promising fairer taxation and an exit strategy from Iraq.
 * Blair launches third and final manifesto, promising a freeze on income tax and new community police teams.
 * A Conservative Party candidate has embarrased the party by doctoring photographs in campaign literature.
 * Postal voting has been discouraged after widespread election fraud in the 2004 local and European elections.
 * Liberal Democrat Party pauses to welcome Donald James Kennedy
 * Labour attack Tory economic policy, claiming the Conservatives will not be able to keep their savings pledges.
 * Conservative Party launches manifesto, promising £35 billion of savings and controls on immigration.
 * Blair requests dissolution of Parliament, candidates go to the country for a May 5th election.