Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 16945 Elected
Labour 8698
Liberal 6015
Independent Conservative 134
Dem Cap 44
Independent 35

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 14350 Elected
Labour 8589
Liberal 4122
National Front 686

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

This was a General Election

Election of 24th Feb, 1977
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 11926 Elected
Labour 3997
Liberal 1981
National Front 1051
Pro-Homosexual Civil Rights 449
National Party 364
New Britain 306
Air, Road, Public Safety, White Resident 61
Christ, Crown, Country, Commonwealth, Christian Constitution 47
Christian Outreach to Britain, Anti-Pornography 43

This was a by-election.

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 16851 Elected
Labour 7067
Liberal 3375
National Front 478

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20754 Elected
Liberal 7367
Labour 6013
Ecology Party 419
National Front 258
Communist Party of Great Britain 161
Independent Conservative 147

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19333 Elected
Social Democratic Party 7291
Labour 6821

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20938 Elected
Labour 7569
Liberal Democrat 5392
Green 458
Monster Raving Loony Party 147
Irish Freedom Movement 107
Natural Law 101

More information about the 1992 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, The City of London and Westminster South BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12742587/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 27th April 2024