Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20668 Elected
Social Democratic Party 7594
Conservative 5240
Plaid Cymru 3421

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1984
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19389 Elected
Social Democratic Party (1981) 6554
Plaid Cymru 3619
Conservative 2441
Communist Party of Great Britain 642
Independent (1) 215
Independent (2) 122

This was a by-election.

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26222 Elected
Social Democratic Party 4651
Conservative 4638
Plaid Cymru 2549

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26254 Elected
Conservative 4890
Plaid Cymru 4186
Liberal Democrat 2667

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23307 Elected
Plaid Cymru 3552
Liberal Democrat 3459
Conservative 2260
Referendum Party 844

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17685 Elected
Plaid Cymru 4687
Liberal Democrat 2541
Conservative 2045

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17074 Elected
Plaid Cymru 3815
Liberal Democrat 2991
Conservative 2062
UK Independence Party 705

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15681 Elected
Plaid Cymru 6064
Liberal Democrat 4120
Conservative 3010
UK Independence Party 1001

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14532 Elected
Plaid Cymru 5126
UK Independence Party 4976
Conservative 3676
Liberal Democrat 830
Green 799
Socialist Labour Party 533

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19404 Elected
Conservative 6166
Plaid Cymru 4376
UK Independence Party 1271
Liberal Democrat 585

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15533 Elected
Conservative 6711
Brexit Party 3045
Plaid Cymru 2562
The Cynon Valley Party 1322
Liberal Democrat 949
Social Democratic Party (1990) 114

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12745497/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 09th May 2024