Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24512 Elected
Liberal 10461
Labour 8429

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25135 Elected
Liberal 11452
Labour 9673

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25253 Elected
Labour 13740
Liberal Democrat 8948
Green 871

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20777 Elected
Conservative 17899
Liberal Democrat 5263
UK Independence Party 631
Green 418

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18002 Elected
Conservative 16210
Liberal Democrat 3706
Independent 770
UK Independence Party 502
National Front 242

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16660 Elected
Conservative 15996
Liberal Democrat 5431
UK Independence Party 2079
Green 888
Independent 188

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22043 Elected
Labour 14426
Liberal Democrat 6935
UK Independence Party 2529

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18838 Elected
UK Independence Party 16026
Labour 11740
Green 1076
Liberal Democrat 932
Independent (1) 318
Manston Airport Independent Party 191
We Are The Reality Party 126
Party for a United Thanet 63
Independent (2) 61
Al-Zebabist Nation of Ooog 30

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25262 Elected
Labour 18875
UK Independence Party 2997
Liberal Democrat 1514
Green 809
Independent 181
Christian People's Alliance 115

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27084 Elected
Labour 16497
Liberal Democrat 2727
Green 1949

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, South Thanet CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12739229/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 27th April 2024