In the 2005 leadership election, she initially supported Kenneth Clarke again.

Parties that gain more than 5 % of the second votes or win at least 3 direct mandates are allocated seats in the Bundestag in proportion to the number of votes it has received ( d ' Hondt method until 1987, largest remainder method until the 2005 election, now Sainte-Laguë method ).

On July 28, 1999 Bal Thackeray was banned from voting and contesting in any election for six years from December 11, 1999 till December 10, 2005 on the recommendations of the Election Commission.

In the 2005 general election, the Liberal Democrats elected 62 MPs to the House of Commons, a far cry from the days when the Liberals had just 5 MPs and Liberalism as a political force had seemed moribund.

* In March 2006 it emerged that the Labour party had borrowed millions of pounds in 2005 to help fund their general election campaign.

Gabon hosted a meeting in 2005, to solve the crisis following Bozizé barring of some candidates in the election.

During the election in 2005, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso openly supported Bozizé.

A new presidential election was expected to be held in October 2005.

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

In the presidential election held April 8, 2005 Ismail Omar Guelleh was re-elected to a second 6-year term at the head of a multi-party coalition that included the FRUD and other major parties.

The DPP suffered a significant election defeat in nationwide local and county elections in December 2005.

Ethiopia held another general election in May 2005, which drew a record number of voters, with 90 % of the electorate turning out to cast their vote.

In June 2005, with the results of the election still unclear, a group of university students protested these alleged discrepancies, encouraged by supporters of the Coalition for Unity opposition party, despite a ban on protests imposed by the government.

On September 5, 2005, the National Elections Board of Ethiopia released the final election results, which confirmed that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front retained its control of the government, but showed that opposition parties had increased their share of parliamentary seats, from 12 to 176.

Ethiopia held another general election in May 2005, which drew a record number of voters, with 90 % of the electorate turning out to cast their vote.

In June 2005, with the results of the election still unclear, a group of opposition supporters protested these alleged discrepancies despite a one month ban on protests imposed by the government.

On September 5, 2005, the National Elections Board of Ethiopia released the final election results in which confirmed that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front retained its control of the government, but showed that opposition parties had increased their share of parliamentary seats, from 12 to 176.

During the run-up to the German general election in 2005, which was held ahead of schedule, Stoiber created controversy through a campaign speech held in the beginning of August 2005 in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.

Many, including members of the CDU, attribute Stoiber's comments and behavior as a contributing factor to the CDU's losses in the 2005 general election.

In the 2005 general election the party won 9. 8 percent of the vote and 61 federal deputies, an unpredicted improvement from prior opinion polls.

* The Problem With First-Past-The-Post Electing ( data from UK general election 2005 )

New for the 2005 election was the alliance between the newly formed Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ) and the PDS, planning to fuse into a common party ( see Left Party. PDS ).

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

In France, Santo Daime won a court case allowing them to use the tea in early 2005 ; however, they were not allowed an exception for religious purposes, but rather for the simple reason that they did not perform chemical extractions to end up with pure DMT and harmala and the plants used were not scheduled.

The Bulgarian Socialist Party won the parliamentary elections in 2005 with 82 out of the 240 seats, thus it didn't get the majority of the seats, with Simeon's movement being the second party.

The Lions ' 2005 tour to New Zealand, coached by 2003 England world cup winning coach Clive Woodward, won all seven games against provincial teams however suffered heavy defeats in all three tests and were narrowly defeated by the New Zealand Maori team.

Bozizé won on the second run-off round on 8 May 2005, defeating Martin Ziguélé, who ran on the ticket of the MLPC, the former ruling party.

On 8 May 2005, Bozizé gained yet a further victory when his coalition, Convergence Kwa Na Kwa, won 42 parliamentary seats in the legislative run-off vote.

The White Sox last won the World Series in 2005 when they played the Houston Astros and swept them in four games.

Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.

In the 2005 season, the Bears won the NFC North Division and the No. 2 Seed in the NFC Playoffs, entitling them to play at least one home game in the postseason.

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

Adam Nelson has won silver medals in the shotput in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2004 Athens Olympics to go along with his gold medal in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki.

The online Britannica won the 2005 Codie award for " Best Online Consumer Information Service "; the Codie awards are granted yearly by the Software and Information Industry Association to recognise the best products among categories of software.

* Luis Castillo ( 1996 – 2005 ) — Castillo won three Gold Glove Awards and went to three All-Star games in his tenure with the Marlins.

* Jeff Conine ( 1993 – 1997, 2003 – 2005 ) — Jeff Conine has the distinction of being the only player to appear in the opener of the Marlins ' inaugural season and in both the 1997 World Series and the 2003 World Series won by the Marlins.

Finland, 2005: won the 2005 New York Short Film Festival Jury Award for Best Screenplay.

Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales of the Liberal Party of Honduras won the 27 November 2005 presidential elections with less than a 4 % margin of victory, the smallest margin ever in Honduran electoral history.

On 6 July 2005 London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

Inorganic compounds show rich variety: A: Diborane features Three-center two-electron bond | unusual bonding B: Caesium chloride has an archetypal crystal structure C: Cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl dimer | Fp < sub > 2 </ sub > is an Organometallic chemistry | organometallic complex D: Polydimethylsiloxane | Silicone's uses range from breast implant s to Silly Putty E: Grubbs ' catalyst won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry | 2005 Nobel Prize for Robert H. Grubbs | its discoverer F: Zeolite s find extensive use as molecular sieve s G: Copper ( II ) acetate surprised Theoretical chemistry | theoreticians with its diamagnetism

Spader won the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Emmy Award for his portrayal of Alan Shore in 2004, on The Practice and won it again in 2005 and 2007, for Boston Legal.

In 2005 year-end filings, Ashcroft's firm reported collecting $ 269, 000, including $ 220, 000 from Oracle Corporation, which won Department of Justice approval of a multibillion-dollar acquisition less than a month after hiring Ashcroft.