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planning to stand down at the next election and Wareing planning to contest his seat as an independent, having been deselected by the local CLP. Three Conservative members are no longer under the Tory whip, although only one ([[Bob Spink]]) plans to stand at the next election, after having been deselected and defecting to the UK Independence Party<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7360118.stm Ex-Tory MP defects to UKIP] BBC News</ref>. Given vocal groups of opposition within the main parties, it is always possible that the number of independent MPs will continue to increase as members are expelled or resign.
planning to stand down at the next election and Wareing planning to contest his seat as an independent, having been deselected by the local CLP. Three Conservative members are no longer under the Tory whip, although only one ([[Bob Spink]]) plans to stand at the next election, after having been deselected and defecting to the UK Independence Party<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7360118.stm Ex-Tory MP defects to UKIP] BBC News</ref>. Given vocal groups of opposition within the main parties, it is always possible that the number of independent MPs will continue to increase as members are expelled or resign.


Many constituencies will be contested by other, smaller parties. Parties that won no representatives at Westminster in 2005, but have seats in the [[Devolution#United Kingdom|devolved assemblies]] and/or [[European Parliament]], include the [[Alliance Party of Northern Ireland]], the [[United Kingdom Independence Party]] (UKIP), the [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green Party and the [[Scottish Green Party]].
Many constituencies will be contested by other, smaller parties. Parties that won no representatives at Westminster in 2005, but have seats in the [[Devolution#United Kingdom|devolved assemblies]] and/or [[European Parliament]], include the [[Alliance Party of Northern Ireland]], the [[United Kingdom Independence Party]] (UKIP), the [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green Party]] and the [[Scottish Green Party]].


UKIP's leader, [[Roger Knapman]], retired as leader on his term ending in 2006 with the leadership election on [[12 September]] [[2006]] electing [[Nigel Farage]] as his replacement, with the defection of former Conservative MP [[Bob Spink]] to the party on 22 April 2008, UKIP now has a seat in the House of Commons for the first time<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/04/22/nukip122.xml Tory rebel Bob Spink becomes Ukip's first MP], [[Daily Telegraph]], [[22 April 2008]]</ref>. The Green Party has new Principle Speakers: Dr [[Caroline Lucas MEP]] and Dr [[Derek Wall]]. In July 2007, Dr Lucas was elected the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate to contest the constituency of [[Brighton Pavilion (UK Parliament constituency)|Brighton Pavilion]].
UKIP's leader, [[Roger Knapman]], retired as leader on his term ending in 2006 with the leadership election on [[12 September]] [[2006]] electing [[Nigel Farage]] as his replacement, with the defection of former Conservative MP [[Bob Spink]] to the party on 22 April 2008, UKIP now has a seat in the House of Commons for the first time<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/04/22/nukip122.xml Tory rebel Bob Spink becomes Ukip's first MP], [[Daily Telegraph]], [[22 April 2008]]</ref>. The Green Party has new Principle Speakers: Dr [[Caroline Lucas MEP]] and Dr [[Derek Wall]]. In July 2007, Dr Lucas was elected the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate to contest the constituency of [[Brighton Pavilion (UK Parliament constituency)|Brighton Pavilion]].

Revision as of 16:46, 27 April 2008

54th United Kingdom general election
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All 650 seats to the House of Commons
  File:Gordon Brown 2005 IMF close.jpg File:Nick Clegg MP.jpg
Leader Gordon Brown David Cameron Nick Clegg
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Leader since 24 June 2007 6 December 2005 18 December 2007
Leader's seat Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath Witney Sheffield Hallam
Last election 356 seats, 35.3% 198 seats, 32.3% 62 seats, 22.1%
Seats needed -64 +131 +264
Incumbent Prime Minister

Gordon Brown
Labour



1997 election • MPs
2001 election • MPs
2005 election • MPs
Next election

Under the provisions of the Parliament Acts of 1911 and 1949, the next United Kingdom general election must be held on or before 3 June 2010, barring exceptional circumstances.[1] The previous General Election in the UK was held on 5 May 2005.

The next general election will be called following the dissolution of the current Parliament. Parliament is dissolved by the Monarch, usually at the request of the Prime Minister. Dissolution can occur at any time within five years of the start of that parliament; however, since the Parliamentary term was set at five years, Parliaments have most often sat for four years, with fresh elections being called at the start of the fifth year.[2]

If the current Parliament follows the pattern of dissolution after four years, the next general election will occur in 2009. The elections of 2001 and 2005 were timed to coincide with local, regional or European elections, an effort to reduce costs and increase turnout. If that practice is also followed, the election will take place on 11 June 2009, to coincide with elections to the European Parliament and local elections in England and those planned for Northern Ireland.

The general election will take place in all constituencies of the United Kingdom, for seats in the House of Commons. There are currently 646 seats in the house; under the proposals made by the four national Boundary Commissions, this will rise to 650 seats with a number of boundary changes from those used at the previous general election, especially in England and Wales. The new boundaries came into force on 27 June 2007 following approval by Parliament. Following a delay in their review process caused by the need to review the local government structure, the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland have completed their parliamentary review.[3][4]

The governing Labour Party will be looking to secure a fourth consecutive term in office and to restore support lost since 1997.[5] The Conservative Party will seek to regain its dominant position in politics after losses in the 1990s, replacing Labour as the governing party. The Liberal Democrats hope to make gains from both sides; although they too would ideally wish to form a government, their more realistic ambition is to hold the balance of power in a hung parliament. The Scottish National Party, encouraged by their victory in the 2007 Scottish parliament elections, have set themselves a target of 20 MPs and will also be hoping to find themselves in a balance of power position. [6]

In November 2006 it was reported that activists for the governing Labour Party were being warned to prepare for a general election as early as 2008.[7] In June 2007, in his speech accepting his appointment as leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown declared that he was appointing a member of the government as election co-ordinator, this was considered by some suggestive that he was intending to call an election earlier than expected.[8] After much media speculation in early October 2007 that an election would be called for first week of November 2007,[9] Gordon Brown announced in an interview with the BBCs Andrew Marr that he would not call an election 'in the next period', thought to mean 2007 or 2008.[10] This announcement followed an opinion poll of marginal constituencies targeted by the Conservatives, which indicated that an election could result in the loss of the overall Labour majority.[11]

Leadership of the main parties

File:Gordon Brown 2005 IMF close.jpg
Gordon Brown, Leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister.
David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition.
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Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats.

David Cameron became Conservative leader in December 2005 replacing Michael Howard. Sir Menzies Campbell replaced Charles Kennedy (who resigned after his own admission of having an alcohol problem) as leader of the Lib Dems in March 2006. Sir Menzies resigned on 15 October 2007 with Nick Clegg being elected as his successor in December 2007. Gordon Brown succeeded Tony Blair as leader of the Labour Party on 27 June 2007. The last time all three main parties went into a General Election with new leaders was in the 1979 election, when James Callaghan as Labour leader, Margaret Thatcher for the Conservatives, and David Steel with the then Liberal Party, took to the polls.

The leadership of each party may have implications beyond party popularity at the polls, especially if a hung parliament requires the formation of a coalition or minority government. Whereas Tony Blair courted the Lib Dems for possible coalition in the 1997 Parliament even though Labour had a clear majority, Gordon Brown is thought to be more resistant to co-operation with the Lib Dems. David Cameron is attempting to make a pitch towards what is referred to as Middle England — the people who it is said have abandoned the Conservative Party since 1992 for Labour or the Liberal Democrats.[12]

Menzies Campbell had continued the position of Charles Kennedy of not being prepared to form a coalition with either main party and of voting against any Queen's Speech unless there was an unambiguous commitment in it to introduce Proportional Representation.[13]

See also Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 2005, Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2006, Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2007, Timeline for the 2007 Labour Party (UK) Leadership elections and new Prime Minister, Labour Party (UK) deputy leadership election, 2007, Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2007

Other parties

There is one independent member of Parliament, Dai Davies, elected in a by-election in succession to fellow independent Peter Law, who died in April 2006. Since the last election, Claire Short and Bob Wareing have resigned the Labour whip, with Short planning to stand down at the next election and Wareing planning to contest his seat as an independent, having been deselected by the local CLP. Three Conservative members are no longer under the Tory whip, although only one (Bob Spink) plans to stand at the next election, after having been deselected and defecting to the UK Independence Party[14]. Given vocal groups of opposition within the main parties, it is always possible that the number of independent MPs will continue to increase as members are expelled or resign.

Many constituencies will be contested by other, smaller parties. Parties that won no representatives at Westminster in 2005, but have seats in the devolved assemblies and/or European Parliament, include the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), the Green Party and the Scottish Green Party.

UKIP's leader, Roger Knapman, retired as leader on his term ending in 2006 with the leadership election on 12 September 2006 electing Nigel Farage as his replacement, with the defection of former Conservative MP Bob Spink to the party on 22 April 2008, UKIP now has a seat in the House of Commons for the first time[15]. The Green Party has new Principle Speakers: Dr Caroline Lucas MEP and Dr Derek Wall. In July 2007, Dr Lucas was elected the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate to contest the constituency of Brighton Pavilion.

Parties with representation at the previous general election at Westminster include the Democratic Unionist Party, Sinn Féin (who do not take their seats as they will not swear the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen), the Social Democratic and Labour Party, and the Ulster Unionist Party from Northern Ireland; Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru from Scotland and Wales respectively; and RESPECT The Unity Coalition and Health Concern, each of which hold one Parliamentary seat from England. In a hung parliament, MPs from smaller parties may be approached by one of the larger parties, in order to form a workable majority.

Small parties and independents that fail to win a seat can still have an effect on the outcome of an election (as can larger parties in seats in which they have no realistic prospect of winning) by taking votes off candidates who have a reasonable prospect of winning that particular seat.

See also List of political parties in the United Kingdom

Opinion polls, and analysis of votes in relation to numbers of seats

The fact that each MP is elected separately makes it impossible to directly interpret national shares of the vote into a clear outcome in United Kingdom general elections as it is unknown for all constituencies in a General Election to exactly reflect national trends. However, analysis of previous elections shows that approximate forecasting of results can be achieved by assuming that the swing in each individual constituency will be the same across the country. This system is used by much of the media in the UK to assess electoral fortunes.

Due to the boundary changes which will come into effect at the election, the benchmarks for relating national vote share to the outcome in seats have been recalculated by a team led by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher. Figures in brackets represents the headline lead. Note that these figures do not take into account the performance of the Liberal Democrats, minor or nationalist parties, Independent candidates, or localised effects caused by a change in the distribution of the Labour and Conservative vote and that of other parties.

Uniform national swing Result
Any to Lab Increased Labour majority in Parliament (Labour lead greater than 3%)
Up to 1.6% to Con Reduced Labour majority (Labour lead of up to 3%)
1.6% – 4.3% to Con Labour hung parliament (A Conservative lead of up to 6%)
4.3% – 6.9% Con Conservative hung parliament (A Conservative lead of up to 9%)
More than 6.9% to Con Conservative overall majority (A Conservative lead of over 9%)

Normally governments can easily survive for a full parliamentary term on a majority of more than 20 seats over all other parties. Below that level there is a danger of by-elections and MPs crossing the floor of the House reducing the government to a minority such that it would be at increased risk of losing a vote of no confidence in the government.

The First Past the Post system seldom closely reflects actual vote shares across the parties, although sometimes individual parties achieve similar shares of votes and seats. In addition, it is not necessarily the party with the most votes that ends up the largest grouping, and since 1935 no single party has ever achieved more than 50% in a UK General Election. Numbers of seats won reflect a large and complex interaction of factors of distribution of votes attained by parties. With a widely distributed vote not concentrated in particular areas, a party is at risk of getting a large vote share but doing poorly in terms of numbers of seats (as the SDP-Liberal Alliance did in the 1980s), whereas parties with very strong localised votes can win seats with a relatively small share of the vote.

See also Exit poll, Opinion poll, Opinion polling in the next United Kingdom general election, Spoiler effect, Tactical voting, Voting system, Wasted vote

MPs who have announced their retirement at the next General Election

Labour

Conservative

Liberal Democrats

Other parties

Boundary changes

Main article: Boundary change recommendations for the next UK general election

The current list of constituencies likely to be used in the next United Kingdom general election (in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) is in Constituencies in the next United Kingdom general election.

The results of the 2005 election.

The four national Boundary Commissions are required by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (as amended by the Boundary Commissions Act 1992) to conduct a general review of all the constituencies in its part of the United Kingdom every eight to twelve years to ensure the size and composition of constituencies are as fair as possible.

Scotland saw its most recent large-scale review completed in 2004, so the boundaries used in the 2005 General Election in Scotland will still apply at the next UK general election; England, Wales and Northern Ireland are due to have their first boundary changes in parliamentary constituencies since the 1997 General Election.

Constituencies in Wales were reviewed by the Boundary Commission for Wales, which has completed its latest review. The recommendations were laid before Parliament on 14 December 2005. The Welsh redistribution of Parliamentary seats has been given legal effect by The Parliamentary Constituencies and Assembly Electoral Regions (Wales) Order 2006 (SI 2006 No. 1041) made on 11 April 2006. The new constituencies will apply from the next general election.

In Wales, the total number of seats is to remain at 40, although new seats have been recommended by radical redrawing of boundaries in Clwyd and Gwynedd; Arfon and Dwyfor Meirionnydd replace Caernarfon and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy respectively; Aberconwy replaces Conwy. Currently Welsh constituencies have on average 25,000 fewer people than their counterparts in England.

The Boundary Commission for England completed its previous general review on 12 April 1995, and the latest review, was required to be completed after 11 April 2003 and before 12 April 2007. The Commission’s recommendations throughout the review had, by law, to be based on the numbers of electors on the electoral registers in 2000 (when the 5th general review started).

In the event the recommendations were completed and sent to the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs on 31 October 2006. The Secretary of State was required to put a draft Order in Council before Parliament. If Parliament approved the draft, then the Queen in Council gives legal effect to the new boundaries, which are then used for the next general election.

The English changes have been given legal effect by The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007 No. 1681) made on 13 June, 2007.

In 2006 the Northern Ireland Boundary Commission proposed that minor changes would take place in the east of the province to its existing constituencies. Through the passing of the Northern Ireland Parliamentary Constituencies Order in 2008, the minor changes to representation there has been given legal effect [65]. For the first time, these changes include the splitting of an electoral ward between two constituencies.

Based on studies using ward by ward data from Local Elections and the 2005 General Election, it is believed that boundary changes implemented for the expected General Election notionally reduce the number of Labour seats by nine, given that there are to be four more seats in the next parliament this notionally reduces Labour's majority from 66 to 44.

Top 10 marginals for main parties

Following the Boundary Commissions' reports recommending changes to seats in England, Northern Ireland, and Wales various estimates have been made of the electoral effect of the changes in each constituency. The most respected of these estimates is "The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies" compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, which was published in February 2007.[66] The website UKPollingReport has also compiled estimates.[67] The various estimates differ in detail.

Arising out of those estimates, lists of the most marginal seats have been compiled. They are the seats where the party needs to overturn the lowest percentage majority to win the seat. These are not necessarily the seats where it will be easiest to do so, or the only seats that the party will actually be targeting at the next election. A complete list for each party is currently being compiled in party order starting with the Conservatives which can be found here, with the top 50 Labour here, top 50 Liberal Democrat and top 25 Plaid and SNP targets to follow.

N.B. The 'Winning Party' is notional (except in the case of Scottish constituencies), calculated on the Boundary Commission changes made to the seat, and may not be the same as the party that won the seat in the 2005 General Election.

Conservative targets

Rank Constituency Winning party Swing to gain
1 Gillingham and Rainham

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 0.02
2 Crawley

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 0.04
3 York Outer

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" |

Liberal Democrats 0.22
4 Romsey and Southampton North

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" |

Liberal Democrats 0.23
5 Harlow

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 0.29
6 Cheltenham

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" |

Liberal Democrats 0.33
7 Croydon Central

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 0.36
8 Portsmouth North

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 0.38
9 Battersea

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 0.41
10 Hove

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 0.50

Labour targets

Rank Constituency Winning party Swing to gain
1 Sittingbourne and Sheppey

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative 0.03
2 Clwyd West

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative 0.07
3 Hemel Hempstead

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative 0.18
4 Kettering

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative 0.20
5 North East Somerset

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative 0.23
6 Finchley and Golders Green

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative 0.35
7 Shipley

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative 0.48
8 Dundee East

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FDF38E;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" |

SNP 0.48
9 Rochester and Strood

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative 0.57
10 Wellingborough

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative 0.62

Liberal Democrat targets

Rank Constituency Winning party Swing to gain
1 Guildford

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative 0.09
2 Solihull

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative 0.12
3 Oxford East

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 0.37
4 Edinburgh South

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 0.47
5 Hampstead and Kilburn

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 0.57
6 Eastbourne

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" |

Conservative 0.70
7 Islington South and Finsbury

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 0.78
8 Watford

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 1.17
9 Ealing Central and Acton

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 1.37

Nationalist targets (Plaid Cymru and SNP)

Rank Constituency Winning party Swing to gain
1 Ceredigion (Plaid Cymru)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" |

Liberal Democrats 0.31
2 Ochil and South Perthshire (SNP)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 0.74
3 Arfon (Plaid Cymru)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 0.91
4 Ynys Môn (Plaid Cymru)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 1.75
5 Dundee West (SNP)

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" |

Labour 7.28

Note

  1. ^ Technically, the Parliament could vote to extend the lifetime of the current term beyond 5 years. This cannot be done by the House of Commons alone; it must be additionally approved by the House of Lords (the Parliament Acts may not be utilised in this case) and by the Queen-in-Parliament. Since 1911, extension of the maximum term of Parliaments has only occurred during the First and Second World Wars. (Reference)
  2. ^ Election: How It Works — The General Election process. The Scotsman, April 5 2005
  3. ^ "Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Final Northern Ireland boundry change recommendations".
  5. ^ Brown would 'renew' Labour Party, BBC News Online, 5 January 2007
  6. ^ Salmond wants Westminster to 'dance to a Scottish jig' as he targets 20 seats Scotsman, April 21, 2008
  7. ^ Labour 'warns of early election', BBC News Online, December 8 2006
  8. ^ Election set for 2008, Philip Webster, The Times, 25 June 2007.
  9. ^ How election fever developed, BBC News Online, October 6 2007
  10. ^ Brown rules out autumn election, BBC News Online October 6 2007
  11. ^ Tory marginals poll, News of the World October 6 2007
  12. ^ Brown to stake all on Middle England, The Times, September 25, 2006
  13. ^ Liberal Democrats under my leadership would vote against any Queens Speech without a clear and unambiguous commitment for Proportional Representation, Menzies Campbell's personal website, February 15 2006
  14. ^ Ex-Tory MP defects to UKIP BBC News
  15. ^ Tory rebel Bob Spink becomes Ukip's first MP, Daily Telegraph, 22 April 2008
  16. ^ Battle's war is finally over, Yorkshire Evening Post, 23 October 2006.
  17. ^ Caborn to stand down as city MP, BBC News, 13 September 2007.
  18. ^ Boundary changes threaten Labour women, The Guardian, 7 December 2006
  19. ^ MP quits to back climate campaign, BBC News, 30 January 2007.
  20. ^ No surprise at party deselection, The Northern Echo, 14 January 2008.
  21. ^ "Labour stalwart is to step down". The Journal (Newcastle-upon-Tyne). 10 October 2006. p. 7. Retrieved 2007-12-26. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  22. ^ Dean to step down as town's MP, Uttoxeter Advertiser, 20 June 2007
  23. ^ City MP Bill to step down, Sunderland Echo, 9 December 2006
  24. ^ MP Neil Gerrard to stand down at next election, Waltham Forest Guardian, 23 February 2007
  25. ^ Selby MP Grogan to stand down, York Press, 11 October 2006
  26. ^ Keith Hill to Retire, Keith Hill MP for Streatham, 23 May 2007
  27. ^ MP Brian to step down after 30 years, Manchester Evening News, 6 October 2006
  28. ^ Jones won't defect to Lib Dems, Birmingham Post, 1 February 2007
  29. ^ MP to step down at next election, Brighton and Hove Argus, 19 September 2006
  30. ^ Blairite McKenna to step down as MP after 40 years in politics, The Herald, 3 August 2007
  31. ^ Blair critic to stand down as MP, BBC News, 17 July 2007
  32. ^ McCafferty to stand down at next election, Halifax Courier, 7 March 2007
  33. ^ Bristol North West MP to retire, BBC News, 26 January 2007
  34. ^ Bill to stand down as MP, Coventry Telegraph, 27 March 2007
  35. ^ John Prescott to stand down as MP, BBC News Online, 27 August 2007
  36. ^ City MP Ken to retire, Express & Star, 27 October 2007
  37. ^ Reid to step down at next poll, BBC News Online, 15 September 2007
  38. ^ Sarwar plans to stand down as MP, BBC News, 21 June 2007
  39. ^ Blair critic to stand down as MP, BBC News, 18 February 2007
  40. ^ Blears wins seat selection battle, BBC News, 19 January 2008
  41. ^ Mark Todd Announces He Will Not Fight Next Election, Derby Evening Telegraph, 22 September 2007.
  42. ^ MP to hand over baton of power, Brighton and Hove Argus, 24 October 2006.
  43. ^ Jason Beattie, "Blair bids to preserve legacy with new MPs", Evening Standard, 23 October 2006, p. 6.
  44. ^ Strang ready to quit Commons at next election, The Scotsman, 26 November 2007
  45. ^ [1]
  46. ^ Boswell set for farewell as Tory MP, Northampton Today, 31 March 2006
  47. ^ Tory deputy chairman to step down, BBC News Online, 17 November 2006
  48. ^ Sir John to stand down at next election, Dorset Echo, 18 March 2008
  49. ^ Conway to step down at election, BBC News Online, 30 January 2008
  50. ^ "Michael Howard stands down as MP, BBC News Online, 17 March, 2006
  51. ^ "Shock as MP Jack to quit seat, Blackpool Gazette, 15 March, 2008
  52. ^ MP to stand down at next election, BBC News Online, December 4 2007
  53. ^ Veteran MP announces retirement, BBC News Online, November 24 2006
  54. ^ Fenland MP Malcolm Moss will stand down,Peterborough Evening Telegraph, 7 September 2007
  55. ^ Sir Michael gets ready to bow out, Worcester News, 24 March, 2006
  56. ^ Ann Widdecombe set to stand down, BBC News Online, 7 October 2007
  57. ^ "Colin Breed MP to stand down at next General Election".
  58. ^ Paul Keetch MP to stand down at General Election, LibDemVoice
  59. ^ Mark Oaten to quit Commons at election, The Independent, 26 July, 2006, p13.
  60. ^ Lib Dem MP Taylor to step down, BBC News Online, 18 May 2007
  61. ^ Lib Dem MP to retire from Commons, BBC News Online, 18 May 2007
  62. ^ Salmond IS to stand for Gordon MSP seat, Buchan Observer, January 2006.
  63. ^ Clare Short: I'm standing down so I can speak the truth, The Independent, 14 September, 2006.
  64. ^ Clare Short resigns as Labour MP, BBC News Online, October 20 2006
  65. ^ OPSI Northern Ireland Constituencies Order
  66. ^ Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre for BBC, ITN, PA News and Sky News. ISBN 0 948858 45 1.
  67. ^ UKPollingReport Election Guide, UK Polling Report, in association with YouGov

Boundary changes

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