Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24029 Elected
Conservative 16341
Liberal Democrat 6237
Referendum Party 1533
Natural Law 130

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22371 Elected
Conservative 14266
Liberal Democrat 4891
UK Independence Party 800

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19612 Elected
Conservative 17041
Liberal Democrat 6831
UK Independence Party 998
Socialist Unity 208
Independent 195

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22408 Elected
Labour 15348
Liberal Democrat 8668
UK Independence Party 1842
British National Party 1542
Green 487

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26295 Elected
Labour 14509
UK Independence Party 8011
Green 1723
Liberal Democrat 1704

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29431 Elected
Labour 21096
Liberal Democrat 1962
UK Independence Party 1564
Green 858

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32584 Elected
Labour 16413
Liberal Democrat 4408
Green 1710

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, North Swindon CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12742691/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 14th May 2024