Political Parties


Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25774 Elected
Labour 19054

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24950 Elected
Labour 16594

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21443 Elected
Labour 16232

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 16533 Elected
Labour 15756
Liberal 4333

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18281 Elected
Labour 16758

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19705 Elected
Labour 16823
Liberal 9718

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17320 Elected
Conservative 16994
Liberal 7850

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23175 Elected
Labour 18400
Liberal 5452
National Front 401
Child & Family Protection Group 190

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23008 Elected
Labour 17612
Social Democratic Party 10613

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23305 Elected
Labour 20721
Liberal 8128
Green 611

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25430 Elected
Conservative 23370
Liberal Democrat 5679
Green 535
Natural Law 178
Revolutionary Communist Party 84

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28121 Elected
Conservative 14033
Liberal Democrat 6121
Referendum Party 1520
People's Labour Party 417
Monster Raving Loony Party 253
Natural Law 85

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21015 Elected
Conservative 10676
Liberal Democrat 6532
Green 1309
UK Independence Party 568

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19226 Elected
Conservative 10375
Liberal Democrat 9591
Green 1581
UK Independence Party 967

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17950 Elected
Conservative 14468
Liberal Democrat 10371
British National Party 1820
UK Independence Party 1131
Green 664
Christian Party 159

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21584 Elected
Conservative 13137
UK Independence Party 5755
Liberal Democrat 2517
Green 2301

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30836 Elected
Conservative 15629
Liberal Democrat 1644
Green 876

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27714 Elected
Conservative 15300
Liberal Democrat 3169
Green 1848
Brexit Party 1436

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, Birmingham Selly Oak BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12744870/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 03rd May 2024