Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20486 Elected
Conservative 13227
Liberal 9242
Workers' Party 155

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22966 Elected
Conservative 14113
Liberal 7994
Red Front 300

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22243 Elected
Conservative 11419
Liberal Democrat 5476
Green 959
Natural Law 212
Socialist Party of Great Britain 175
Independent 133

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24707 Elected
Conservative 6804
Liberal Democrat 4758
Referendum Party 790
Natural Law 191
Independent (1) 173
Workers' Revolutionary Party 171
Rainbow Dream Ticket 157
Independent (2) 140
People's Labour Party 114

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16770 Elected
Liberal Democrat 5595
Conservative 5258
Green 1875
Socialist Alliance 971
Socialist Labour Party 359
UK Independence Party 301

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14857 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10070
Conservative 6482
Green 2798
Vote For Yourself 152

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25198 Elected
Liberal Democrat 15256
Conservative 11134
Green 1480
British National Party 779
UK Independence Party 587
Independent (1) 96
English Democrats 75
Independent (2) 44

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29062 Elected
Conservative 12014
Green 7013
Liberal Democrat 3555
UK Independence Party 2740
Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol Party 252
Animal Welfare Party 173
Socialist Equality Party 108

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 41343 Elected
Conservative 10834
Liberal Democrat 4020
Green 1980
UK Independence Party 727
English Democrats 93

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 36641 Elected
Conservative 8878
Liberal Democrat 7314
Green 2746
Brexit Party 1032
UK Independence Party 138
Socialist Equality Party 37

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, Holborn and St Pancras BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12741406/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 26th April 2024