Talk:List of MPs elected in the 2005 United Kingdom general election

message: Is the Graphical representation of the House of Commons (which I found it really great) reflects the real position of the seats and the shape of the UK house of commons (rectangular shape with a rocket-like gap in the middle)? CG 07:31, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
:Well, the chamber has benches rather than individual seats, and I don't know the precise seating arrangements of the minor parties, but yes the graphic does show the general layout of the chamber although there isn't enough room for all MPs to sit if they all turn up at once (if I recall correctly, there's room for a little over 400 of them to sit down) and late-comers have to stand at the end of the chamber opposite the Speaker (presumably represented by the "tongue" of red extending from the right). -- Arwel 11:22, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, that isn't a realistic representation! The House has two parallel sides of five rows of benches each with a gangway at each end and one in the middle. The Government sit on the Speaker's right and "front bench" refers to the set of benches (on each side) that are at the end of the Speaker's Chair, and "back bench" to the opposite end. The majority opposition use the "front bench" on the left with other parties, roughly in decreasing size, working back/up from the front/centre. There are a few benches or part-benches facing the speaker for officials. --Vamp:Willow 11:50, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Except that if you watch the parliamentary TV coverage you will notice that the Lib Dem leadership sit on the front opposition bench, further down the chamber from the Speaker and the Tory leadership; The SNP and Plaid Cymru members seem to sit a few rows behind the Lib Dems, and the NI members are in the same general area. The opposition benches at the Speakers' end are solidly Tory. -- Arwel 12:00, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

text: LibDems sit on the *back* opposition bench ... "Front" in parly terms refers to the five rows of benches nearest the speaker *not* to those nearest the central aisle. I'll write something about the layout / seating - have just done a quick edit on the image as the lump of MPs in the middle was clearly misleading people --Vamp:Willow 12:11, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: One suggestion on the FLC is to use the party colours, so I've had an attempt at implementing a scheme. I didn't want to do it *all* and then find someone's got a better idea, so this is my idea here -- Joolz 14:27, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for responding to my FLC comment - that was the sort of thing I meant.  Looks fine to me (although the empty cell could be a touth wider.  One of my other comments (adding specific column widths) could help - I've had a go above. -- ALoan (Talk) 15:01, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good now (I'll tried and failed to make the width wider ;) - I'll go and implement it :) -- Joolz 15:16, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It may be worth waiting a day or two to see whether anyone else has comments.   Unless you feel impelled to be bold, that is :) -- ALoan (Talk) 15:21, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It may take a day or two to implement the thing ;) -- Joolz 15:30, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

text: This may need to be rethought, I had a go at implementing it (rather unsuccessfully) because it doubles the length of the page (up to around 218kb) -- Joolz 19:29, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colours 

message: I want to remove the previous MPs+Party column, although it's interesting it's covered by the 2001 list already; it adds substantially to the length of the page and makes it unwieldy and as someone pointed out on the FLC page some of the previous MPs are purely notional because of boundary changes/constituency creations, what does everyone think? -- Joolz 14:36, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea! do it :) --BrownHairedGirl (talk)  • (contribs) 09:27, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Previous MPs 

message: East Yorkshire and East Worthing and Shoreham seem to be missing... Sjorford 11:31, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. sjorford mmmmm 09:54, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two missing 

message: Shouldn't the SDLP be included on the Labour side of the graphical representation as they accept the Labour whip?
:It seems to be an informal arrangement - they sit on the opposition benches, as far as I can tell. — sjorford++ 14:07, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  SDLP 

message: The 54th it may be, but it's not the 54th parliament! A new parliament is constituted after each time the Queen summons one, and happens at the State Opening, which is each year nowadays. The House of Commons (which is only a part of Parliament, remember) may very well have the same members as when the previous parliament was proprogued at the start of the summer. What does this "54th" actually refer to? It is the 54th General Election ? Or something more obscure? This is a Wikipedia article, so we mustn't be inaccurate, even if politicians are misusing the terminology. Neuralwarp (talk) 16:45, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm afraid you're wrong - the annual meetings are sessions of Parliament, not separate Parliaments. This is indeed the 54th Parliament of the United Kingdom, as established by Hansard. Please check this link which was the end of the previous session of the present Parliament on 26 November 2008: at the end it says "End of the Third Session (opened on 6 November 2007 ) of the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the Fifty-Seventh Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second." Sam Blacketer (talk) 21:48, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  54th General Election, not Parliament 

message: The table at the top of the article is misleading, the number of MPs only adds up to 645 for the "election" column. This is because Sylvia Hermon hasn't been counted as an Ulster Unionist- there is no mention of the party here. Surely the table shouldn't just focus on the affiliation of MPs at dissolution? Especially as it is now inaccurate.Southwesterner258 (talk) 20:38, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ulster Unionist 

message: The first column of numbers in the composition table appears to add up to 645, not 646.--86.178.142.210 (talk) 06:11, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind - as per the above comment, the UUP MP was missing, so added in. Also identified Peter Law as the independent at the election.--86.178.142.210 (talk) 06:16, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Composition 

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