The seats listed below as "defence" are Labour's most vulnerable to attack from other parties, based on the results of the 2001 general election. If Tony Blair's party had lost all 80, and gained no others, it would have lost its overall majority in the House of Commons. Further down are the target seats that Labour would have been most likely to gain if the party had improved on its result in the last election. Seats lost graph

Labour defence

LABOUR LOSSES: 47 SEATS
Constituency					Lost to	New majority
Bethnal Green & Bow					RES	1.9%
Bexleyheath & Crayford					CON	10.7%
Birmingham Yardley					LD	9.1%
Blaenau Gwent					IND	25.9%
Braintree					CON	7.3%
Brent East					LD	8.7%
Bristol West					LD	8.9%
Cambridge					LD	10.0%
Cardiff Central					LD	15.5%
Clwyd West					CON	0.4%
Croydon Central					CON	0.2%
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale					CON	3.9%
Dunbartonshire East					LD	8.7%
Dundee East					SNP	1.0%
Enfield Southgate					CON	4.1%
Falmouth & Camborne					LD	3.9%
Forest of Dean					CON	4.3%
Gravesham					CON	1.4%
Hammersmith & Fulham					CON	10.2%
Harwich					CON	1.8%
Hemel Hempstead					CON	1.1%
Hornchurch					CON	1.3%
Hornsey & Wood Green					LD	5.1%
Ilford North					CON	3.8%
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey					LD	9.4%
Kettering					CON	5.9%
Lancaster & Wyre					CON	8.0%
Leeds North West					LD	4.2%
Manchester Withington					LD	1.8%
Milton Keynes North East					CON	3.3%
Monmouth					CON	9.9%
Na h-Eileanan an Iar					SNP	10.4%
Northampton South					CON	8.1%
Peterborough					CON	6.6%
Preseli Pembrokeshire					CON	1.6%
Putney					CON	4.8%
Reading East					CON	1.1%
Rochdale					LD	1.1%
Rugby & Kenilworth					CON	2.9%
Scarborough & Whitby					CON	2.7%
Shipley					CON	0.9%
Shrewsbury & Atcham					CON	3.6%
St Albans					CON	3.0%
The Wrekin					CON	2.1%
Wellingborough					CON	1.3%
Welwyn Hatfield					CON	13.3%
Wimbledon					CON	5.3%
DEFENCE SEATS (in order of vulnerability)
2001 Results					2005 Results
No.	Constituency	Majority	Party		Party	New majority
1	Dumfries and Galloway	0.3%			LAB	5.7 %
2	Dorset South	0.3%			LAB	3.7 %
3	Braintree	0.7%			CON	7.3 %
4	Monmouth	0.9%			CON	9.9 %
5	Lancaster & Wyre	0.9%			CON	8.0 %
6	Kettering	1.2%			CON	5.9 %
7	Dundee East	1.3%			SNP	1.0 %
8	Northampton South	1.7%			CON	8.1 %
9	Ochil and South Perthshire	1.8%			LAB	1.5 %
10	Cardiff Central	1.9%			LD	15.5 %
11	Ynys Mon	2.4%			LAB	3.5 %
12	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey	2.7%			LD	9.4 %
13	Welwyn Hatfield	2.8%			CON	13.3 %
14	Shipley	3.1%			CON	0.9 %
15	Clwyd West	3.2%			CON	0.4 %
16	Bexleyheath & Crayford	3.6%			CON	10.7 %
17	Milton Keynes North East	3.9%			CON	3.3 %
18	Hornchurch	4.2%			CON	1.3 %
19	Selby	4.3%			LAB	0.9 %
20	Hammersmith & Fulham	4.5%			CON	10.2 %
21	Thanet South	4.5%			LAB	1.6 %
22	Forest of Dean	4.6%			CON	4.3 %
23	Wellingborough	4.6%			CON	1.3 %
24	Ilford North	5.3%			CON	3.8 %
25	Rugby & Kenilworth	5.3%			CON	2.9 %
26	Gillingham	5.4%			LAB	0.6 %
27	Harwich	5.4%			CON	1.8 %
28	Enfield North	6%			LAB	4.7 %
29	Oldham East & Saddleworth	6%			LAB	8.3 %
30	Dunbartonshire East	6.3%			LD	8.7 %
31	Calder Valley	6.5%			LAB	2.9 %
32	Redditch	6.7%			LAB	6.7 %
33	Peterborough	7.2%			CON	6.6 %
34	Shrewsbury & Atcham	7.2%			CON	3.6 %
35	Dartford	7.4%			LAB	1.5 %
36	Scarborough & Whitby	7.5%			CON	2.7 %
37	Hove	7.6%			LAB	0.9 %
38	Bristol West	8%			LD	8.9 %
39	Preseli Pembrokeshire	8%			CON	1.6 %
40	Gloucester	8%			LAB	8.2 %
41	Putney	8.1%			CON	4.8 %
42	Hemel Hempstead	8.2%			CON	1.1 %
43	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	8.2%			SNP	10.4 %
44	Ribble South	8.2%			LAB	4.6 %
45	Finchley & Golders Green	8.5%			LAB	1.7 %
46	Wolverhampton South West	8.5%			LAB	6.9 %
47	Birmingham Yardley	8.6%			LD	9.1 %
48	The Wrekin	8.6%			CON	2.1 %
49	Croydon Central	8.7%			CON	0.2 %
50	Elmet	9.1%			LAB	9.6 %
51	Wimbledon	9.1%			CON	5.3 %
52	Stroud	9.1%			LAB	0.6 %
53	Keighley	9.2%			LAB	10.5 %
54	Sittingbourne & Sheppey	9.3%			LAB	0.2 %
55	High Peak	9.3%			LAB	1.5 %
56	Aberdeen South	9.5%			LAB	3.2 %
57	Stourbridge	9.5%			LAB	1.0 %
58	Brigg & Goole	9.6%			LAB	6.8 %
59	Falmouth & Camborne	9.7%			LD	3.9 %
60	Medway	9.8%			LAB	0.5 %
61	Colne Valley	9.9%			LAB	3.1 %
62	Wirral West	10%			LAB	2.7 %
63	St Albans	10.2%			CON	3.0 %
64	Vale of Glamorgan	10.4%			LAB	3.8 %
65	Burton	10.4%			LAB	3.0 %
66	Hastings & Rye	10.5%			LAB	4.7 %
67	Pendle	10.8%			LAB	5.3 %
68	Bradford West	10.9%			LAB	8.3 %
69	Chatham & Aylesford	10.9%			LAB	5.5 %
70	Warwick & Leamington	11.1%			LAB	0.5 %
71	Gravesham	11.1%			CON	1.4 %
72	Great Yarmouth	11.3%			LAB	7.4 %
73	Wansdyke	11.3%			LAB	3.6 %
74	Stafford	11.3%			LAB	4.7 %
75	Tamworth	11.4%			LAB	5.9 %
76	Dover	11.6%			LAB	10.3 %
77	Rossendale & Darwen	11.9%			LAB	8.3 %
78	Watford	12%			LAB	2.3 %
79	Broxtowe	12%			LAB	4.7 %
80	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	12.1%			CON	3.9 %
TARGET SEATS (in order of vulnerability)
2001 Results					2005 Results
No.	Constituency	Majority	Party		Party	New majority
1	Boston & Skegness	1.3%	CON		CON	14.1 %
2	Beverley & Holderness	1.7%	CON		CON	5.1 %
3	Bedfordshire South West	1.8%	CON		CON	18.1 %
4	Basingstoke	1.8%	CON		CON	9.7 %
5	Castle Point	2.5%	CON		CON	17.9 %
6	Upminster	3.7%	CON		CON	17.4 %
7	Canterbury	4.6%	CON		CON	15.7 %
8	Bury St Edmunds	5%	CON		CON	18.9 %
9	Bosworth	5.1%	CON		CON	11.2 %
10	Moray	5.1%	SNP		SNP	14.6 %
11	Chesterfield	5.8%	LD		LD	6.9 %
12	Hexham	6%	CON		CON	12.1 %
13	Uxbridge	6.3%	CON		CON	18.0 %
14	Chipping Barnet	6.4%	CON		CON	14.1 %
15	Gosport	6.6%	CON		CON	13.3 %
16	Altrincham & Sale West	6.8%	CON		CON	16.2 %
17	Norfolk North West	6.8%	CON		CON	18.1 %
18	Carmarthen East & Dinefwr	6.8%	PC		PC	17.5 %
19	Wycombe	7%	CON		CON	15.9 %
20	Suffolk Central & Ipswich North	7.4%	CON		CON	15.4 %
21	Hertfordshire North East	7.7%	CON		CON	19.3 %
22	Spelthorne	7.8%	CON		CON	23.2 %
23	Old Bexley & Sidcup	7.9%	CON		CON	22.3 %
24	Meriden	8.5%	CON		CON	15.1 %
25	Suffolk Coastal	8.6%	CON		CON	18.4 %
26	Norfolk Mid	8.7%	CON		CON	13.8 %
27	Newark	9%	CON		CON	14.1 %
28	Grantham & Stamford	9.8%	CON		CON	15.8 %
29	Aldridge-Brownhills	10%	CON		CON	13.9 %
30	Argyll and Bute	9.2%	LD		LD	13.0 %
31	Suffolk West	10.1%	CON		CON	20.2 %
32	Banbury	10.1%	CON		CON	19.2 %
33	Faversham & Kent Mid	10.2%	CON		CON	20.0 %
34	Eddisbury	10.3%	CON		CON	13.6 %
35	Havant	10.4%	CON		CON	15.7 %
36	Lichfield	10.6%	CON		CON	16.2 %
37	Yorkshire East	10.8%	CON		CON	13.4 %
38	Beckenham	10.9%	CON		CON	17.2 %
39	Billericay	11%	CON		CON	22.9 %
40	Suffolk South	11.2%	CON		CON	13.6 %
41	Wantage	11.4%	CON		CON	15.4 %
42	Perth and North Perthshire	11%	SNP		SNP	3.3 %
43	Hertsmere	11.8%	CON		CON	26.1 %
44	Edinburgh West	11.9%	LD		LD	30.0 %
45	Hertford & Stortford	11.9%	CON		CON	26.4 %
46	Caernarfon	12.1%	PC		PC	18.6 %
47	Chelmsford West	13%	CON		CON	18.8 %
48	Blaby	13%	CON		CON	15.9 %
49	Stone	13.2%	CON		CON	19.3 %
50	Cities of London & Westminster	13.2%	CON		CON	22.2 %