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Contents
- 1 Live Election Results, Discussions, Alerts
- 2 Major Media
- 3 Unique Sites
- 4 Election Starting Points
- 5 Government Election-related Sites
- 6 Satire and Humour
- 7 Blogs About the Elections
- 8 Blogging Candidates
- 9 Campaign Diaries
- 10 Best Individual Candidate Websites
- 11 Mobile Sites/SMS Features
- 12 Online Forums and Discussions
- 13 Political Parties
- 14 Unsorted
- 15 New Sites
Live Election Results, Discussions, Alerts
Help add direct links to live election results, online chats, alert services.
- BBC News - Election 2005 Results map
- Guardian Election Night Blog
- I voted for you because
- CoolClarity: Election 2005 - a discussion forum dedicated to the 2005 UK elections with live Election Night coverage with own expert website pundits and live constituency results.
Major Media
Listed by Alexa ranking
- BBC News - Election 2005 (plus election blog)
- The Guardian - Election 2005 (plus an election blog)
- The Times - General Election 2005 (plus an "Election Log" blog)
- Financial Times - UK elections 2005
- Sky News - Vote 05
- Daily Telegraph - Election countdown 2005
- Channel 4 - Election 2005 (plus a blog round-up)
- The Independent - Vote 2005
- Western Mail (Wales) - Politics
- The Scotsman (Scotland) - Election 2005
- The Herald (Scotland) - Politics
- London 24 - Election 2005 - Local London papers
Also, see:
- Yahoo (UK & Ireland) - Election 2005
- News Now - Headlines
Unique Sites
- Not Apathetic - Clever site where non-voters can explain why they are not voting from http://MySociety.Org
- FactCheck - run by the TV station Channel 4
- Perfect.co.uk eDemocracy - Robin Grant's ongoing coverage of the internet's use in the election campaign.
- http://perfect.co.uk/edemocracy
- Overview of the action up until 11th April http://perfect.co.uk/2005/04/the-internet-election
- Spoil Your Vote - online campaign to encourage people to express their dissatisfaction but still actually vote
- Political Betting - blog that demonstrates the punters know more than the pundits or pollsters
- UK Polling Report - summary of opinion polls, with its associated blog
- ePolitix.com Vote 2005 - election news and background
- The British Election Study (University of Essex) - rolling campaign survey
- Y-Vote 2005 Mock Elections 2005 - resource (from the Hansard Society) to enable schools to stage mock elections
- Who Should You Vote For? - a tool to help voters decide which party most closely represents their views (NB: now the most popular political site in the UK)
- Who Do I Vote For? - another tool to help voters decide which party most closely represents their views (sound familiar?)
- Political Survey 2005 - opinion questionnaire that shows how your views compare with the rest of the British population
- How They Voted 2005 (... and so how you should) - short quiz (from The Public Whip) to compare your views with the actual votes of your local MP on key issues, to help you decide
- Political Compass - questionnaire to work out where you stand ideologically (on a two-dimensional grid rather than a simple left-right linear model)
- Stolen Votes - campaign against electoral fraud caused by the lax postal voting system
- Operation Black Vote
- Don't Vote Labour - campaign to defend Scottish army regiments from abolition by the government
- MPs Reunited - Friends Reunited's profiles of parliamentary candidates
- UK Elect - Election forecasting
- Nominations for the 2005 General Election (Press Association) - constituency-by-constituency list of all nominated candidates
- 2005 Election Leaflets - a project to create a digital archive of election campaign literature
- TheSite - links and resources (from YouthNet UK) on the election for young people
- Tactical voting sites - there are several online campaigns advocating tactical voting of one sort or another
- Party 'watch' sites - each party has been targeted by a 'watch' blog set up by opponents, to expose various gaffes, scandals and other embarrassments
- Comment on the Party Manifestos
- New European Times - Site closely allied to Daily Kos, the largest political web site in the USA, where Brits discuss political issues in their country with Americans who support the Democratic Party.
- The Dome of Conscience - a live score board of opinions voted by Election candidates
See "Discussion" page for extra note.
Election Starting Points
- Open Directory Project - 2005 UK Election
Society_and_Culture/Politics/Elections/2005]
- LookSmart - UK 2005 General Election
- Wikipedia - UK General Election 2005
- Shared Bookmarks - Tags from Del.icio.us
- Election 2005 - comprehensive portal
- Social Science Information Gateway
- Google News - "Internet Election 2005"
- Five: Independent Coverage of UK Election - Exclusive Podcasts
- Electoral Commission
- About My Vote
- DirectGov - Election 2005
- Electoral Office for Northern Ireland
Satire and Humour
- The Official Monster Raving Loony Party (also under parties)
- Automatic Tory Policy Generator
- Vote for Britain's Next Prime Minister
- Mud Slinging game
- Deadbrain - Election 2005
- The UK's Voice of Election Reason
- The Portadown News - Northern Ireland black humour
- Michael Howard MP - Spoof blog of the Conservative leader
- Alastair Campbell - Spoof blog of Tony Blair's former spin-meister
- Spinon - the site that brought you Egg Prescott and MP in a Blender in 2005 is back again
- Your own Conservative poster - create your own parody election poster
- Doctored photo (based on Ed Matts, the Tory candidate caught out doctoring a photo), plus examples of joke versions sent to the Guardian
- General Erection 2005 - which party leader would you most like to have sex with?
- Subservient Blair - instruct Blair how to dance
- GB Jab - Flash animation and song featuring Blair and Bush
Blogs About the Elections
- 2005 UK General Election - a blog of blogs
- The Returning Officers - political gossip from a consortium of three of the UK's leading political bloggers
- UK Poli Blogs - comprehensive digest of British political blogs
- Political blogs - selected list of links to UK political blogs (part of the W4MP site)
- LibDem Blogs Aggregated! - an aggregator of blogs by individual Liberal Democrats
- Independence - Scottish National Party-related Blog
- Political Betting Blog
- Make Votes Count Blog
- More political blogs
- Jamie's Big Voice - Former homeless person and former drug addict, Jamie McCoy, blogging for homeless people to make their views known and give a commentary on the General Election campaign.
- Postal Voting - a blog about the issue of electoral fraud associated with postal votes
- Whittington - the blog of a Liberal Democrat cat
- "Who is writing the leaders' blogs?" - BBC news story, 22 April
- Westminster Village - stories and humour from the inside-the-beltway of the UK
Blogging Candidates
List only those candidate sites updated most days.
- List of candidates' blogs, by party (about 50)
- Keith Taylor for Westminster - Brighton's Green candidate with the best chance in the country of securing a Green seat.
- Romseyredhead - Blog of Sandra Gidley (Liberal Democrat MP for Romsey since 2000, standing for re-election), who's been blogging since September 2004
- John Hemming's Web Log - Blog of the Liberal Democrat candidate in Birmingham Yardley
- Iain Dale for North Norfolk - Blog of Conservative candidate in North Norfolk
- Tom Watson - Blog of the Labour MP standing for re-election in West Bromwich East
- Scottish National Party Candidates
- Boris Johnson - Conservative MP standing for re-election in Henley
- Craig Murray - Independent candidate for Blackburn
- Pete Wishart - SNP MP standing for re-election in Perth and North Perthshire, the the Scottish National Party's Campaign Director for the Westminster elections
- Kevin Stewart - SNP candidate for Aberdeen North and leader of the SNP Group in Aberdeen Council
- James Purnell - Campaign for re-election as your Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde
Campaign Diaries
Candidate dairies carried on media and other non-party/candidate sites.
- kennedycampaign.org - Blog from the inside of the campaign of Charles Kennedy (leader of the Liberal Democrats), written by members of his campaign team
- Labour's David Blunkett, Lib Dem Simon Hughes - via Yahoo UK
- Candidate Diaries - on the Guardian
- The New Party Campaign Diary
Best Individual Candidate Websites
None were nominated. Here are sources with links to individual candidate sites:
- Ask Artistole - Guardian - Dig down
- Candidate Sites by Party
Mobile Sites/SMS Features
- Stop Nuisance Election Calls - Campaign organised by the Liberal Democrats to stop the use of unsolicited phone calls during the campaign
- Track Election on your Mobile - via BBC
- Site Name - Desription
- Full URL
Online Forums and Discussions
- CoolClarity: Election 2005 - a forum dedicated to the 2005 UK elections with live Election Night coverage with own expert website pundits.
- Vote 2005 UK Election Prediction - a forum where anyone can post predictions for each of the 646 parliamentary constituencies
- Vote 2005 Discussion Forum - a forum where anyone can discuss the parties and issues
- Channel 4 - Election Forum
- HeadsUp - Debating site for under-18s to share their thoughts on the election
- The New Party - Policy, Campaign, and Election Forum
- Vote-4-Me from Votivation - Rolling Citizen's Assembly
Political Parties
- Labour Party
- Conservative Party
- Liberal Democrats (+ Scottish and Welsh Liberal Democrats)
- Scottish National Party (SNP)
- Plaid Cymru - Party of Wales
- Green Parties
- http://www.greenparty.org.uk - Green Party of England and Wales
- http://www.scottishgreens.org - Scottish Green Party
- http://www.greens-in.org - Green Party in Northern Ireland]
- The New Party
- The Official Monster Raving Loony Party
- More - From the Electoral Commission
Unsorted
- Conservative Home
New Sites
After listing a site above, please list the site a second time here - most recent addition at top.
- The New Party
- The New Party Campaign Diary
- The New Party Forum - Policy, Campaign and Election Discussion Forum
- BBC News - Election 2005 Results map
- Politics.Co.UK Candidate Directory - May 4
- Operation Black Vote - May 4
- The Dome of Conscience - a live score board of opinions voted by Election candidates
- 2005 Election Leaflets - Unique Sites - 24 April
- TheSite - Unique Sites - 24 April
- Political Compass - Unique Sites - 24 April
- Vote Dorset - Unique Sites (tactical voting) - 24 April
- "Who is writing the leaders' blogs?" - Blogs About the Elections - 22 April
- Nominations for the 2005 General Election (Press Association) - Unique Sites - 21 April
- GB Jab - Satire - 20 April
- Who Should You Vote For? (press release) - Unique Sites - 20 April
- Spin On - Satire - 18 April
- Subservient Blair - Satire - 18 April
- The UK's Voice of Reason - Satire - 11 May
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