Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18163 Elected
Social Democratic Party 16190
Conservative 15438

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23382 Elected
Social Democratic Party 17257
Conservative 11408

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27095 Elected
Conservative 12037
Liberal Democrat 10915
Green 812

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 31102 Elected
Conservative 8598
Liberal Democrat 7499
Referendum Party 1723
Natural Law 213

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23254 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9813
Conservative 7167
UK Independence Party 1252

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20928 Elected
Liberal Democrat 17654
Conservative 4179
Veritas 1603

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20496 Elected
Liberal Democrat 17429
Conservative 6146
British National Party 1153
UK Independence Party 856
Independent 172

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21596 Elected
Conservative 10157
UK Independence Party 5232
Liberal Democrat 5153
Green 2687
Independent (1) 649
Independent (2) 195

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26772 Elected
Conservative 14408
Liberal Democrat 4787
UK Independence Party 1116
Green 797
Independent 399
Young People's Party 45

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20531 Elected
Conservative 15506
Liberal Democrat 7935
Brexit Party 3252
Green 1635

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, City of Durham CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12737592/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 09th May 2024