Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20797 Elected
Labour 18796
Liberal 15204

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 20559 Elected
Labour 19469
Liberal 12004

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 31593 Elected
Labour 19075
Liberal 10115

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29462 Elected
Social Democratic Party 16021
Labour 10551

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32978 Elected
Social Democratic Party 16121
Labour 11764

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 34415 Elected
Labour 16921
Liberal Democrat 13603
Green 855

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23729 Elected
Conservative 22278
Liberal Democrat 6418
Referendum Party 2165
Green 712
Independent 274

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21123 Elected
Conservative 20765
Liberal Democrat 5664
Green 1241
Legalise Cannabis Alliance 774
UK Independence Party 748

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23597 Elected
Labour 19704
Liberal Democrat 7037
Green 1308
UK Independence Party 1181
Independent 228

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25901 Elected
Labour 9780
Liberal Democrat 9247
UK Independence Party 2477
British National Party 1080
Green 718

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27071 Elected
UK Independence Party 9461
Labour 9296
Liberal Democrat 2488
Green 1564
Independent 295
British National 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
Conservative 32873 Elected
Labour 14451
Liberal Democrat 2251
UK Independence Party 1835
Green 916

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 34112 Elected
Labour 9439
Liberal Democrat 4779
Independent (1) 1488
Independent (2) 420
Independent (3) 261

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12745084/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 05th May 2024