Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22699 Elected
Conservative 11070
Liberal 8181

More information about the 1974 Feb General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21145 Elected
Conservative 8111
Liberal 4931
National Front 1731

More information about the 1974 Oct General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19391 Elected
Conservative 11638
Liberal 2774
National Front 1490
Socialist Unity 274
WRP 198

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17360 Elected
Conservative 11328
Social Democratic Party 6734
British National Party 317
Independent 173

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18724 Elected
Conservative 11953
Social Democratic Party 6513
Green 568

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22574 Elected
Conservative 10336
Liberal Democrat 4181

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23827 Elected
Conservative 4949
Liberal Democrat 3004
Socialist Labour Party 996
Referendum Party 868

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18915 Elected
Conservative 3622
Liberal Democrat 3409
Green 1901
Socialist Alliance 1260

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16902 Elected
Liberal Democrat 5091
Conservative 3773
Green 3367
Socialist Alternative 742
UK Independence Party 518

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22132 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9633
Conservative 5551
Green 2772
Socialist Alternative 645
Christian People's Alliance 487

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28572 Elected
Conservative 7056
Green 5932
Liberal Democrat 2497
UK Independence Party 2013
Lewisham People Before Profit 666
Christian People's Alliance 300
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 286
Democratic Reform Party 74
Independent 30

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 42461 Elected
Conservative 7562
Liberal Democrat 2911
Green 1640
Christian People's Alliance 252
Animal Welfare Party 225
The Realists' Party 61

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 39216 Elected
Conservative 6303
Liberal Democrat 5774
Green 3085
Brexit Party 789
Independent 130
Alliance for Green Socialism 71

More information about the 2019 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election


The election result data we hold includes over three 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 ...


your 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 including Isle of Wight nationalists.

How to reference this page:

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12737440/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 09th May 2024