Groupings of Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21220
Conservative 11551
Liberal 8871
Left 207

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25747
Conservative 10789
Liberal 6594

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26343
Conservative 10559
Liberal 4201

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 32925
Conservative 7907
Liberal 3934
Other 1331

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22783
Conservative 6453
Liberal 3512
Left 969

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18562
Liberal 5995
Conservative 5263
Right 1587
Other 733

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15351
Liberal 6662
Conservative 6283
Right 3190
Other 1969

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Nov, 2012
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 10201
Right 2318
Liberal 1672
Other 1335
Conservative 1063
Left 277

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18584
Right 6107
Conservative 5388
Other 1407
Liberal 1220

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23404
Conservative 9531
Right 1452
Other 882
Liberal 368

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17207
Conservative 8812
Other 7262
Liberal 816

More information about the 2019 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election


The election result data we hold includes over two hundred party labels, so we have simplified them to these seven simple categories. Of course, most candidates in most elections, and almost every candidate who won, was standing for one of the main parties, but an enormous range of labels have been used by one or two candidates. These groupings have been defined based almost entirely on the party labels, rather than detailed research into party policies, but including words like 'Labour' or 'Conservative' in yo...


ur party label says a lot about where you stand, and even more about the people voting for you. 'Left' means broadly speaking candidates to the left of the Liberal or Labour parties, 'Right' candidates to the right of the Conservatives. 'Nationalist' means any kind of nationalist, even for the Isle of Wight.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Middlesbrough BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Groupings of Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12756586/cube/POL_PARTY_GROUP

Date accessed: 12th June 2024