Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 17742 Elected
Conservative 15080
Scottish National Party 5649
Labour 3923
Referendum Party 808

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 16507 Elected
Conservative 11686
Labour 4669
Scottish National Party 4634
Scottish Socialist Party 418

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 19285 Elected
Conservative 11814
Labour 5470
Scottish National Party 4700
Scottish Socialist Party 379

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 17362 Elected
Conservative 13678
Scottish National Party 7086
Labour 6159
British National Party 513
UK Independence Party 397

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 22949 Elected
Conservative 15916
Liberal Democrat 11812
Labour 2487
UK Independence Party 1006
Green 885
Independent 141

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24704 Elected
Scottish National Party 16754
Labour 5706
Liberal Democrat 4461

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22752 Elected
Scottish National Party 21909
Liberal Democrat 6253
Labour 2431

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, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12739333/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 15th May 2024