Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22123 Elected
Conservative 16998
Social Democratic Party 10869

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26023 Elected
Conservative 17773
Social Democratic Party 8697

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29021 Elected
Conservative 16937
Liberal Democrat 4953
Liberal 1296
Natural Law 354

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30137 Elected
Conservative 9826
Liberal Democrat 6121

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21913 Elected
Conservative 6583
Liberal Democrat 4152
UK Independence Party 945

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20340 Elected
Conservative 6842
Liberal Democrat 5814
British National Party 1326
UK Independence Party 1120

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19191 Elected
Conservative 9360
Liberal Democrat 6727
UK Independence Party 2060
Independent 297

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19661 Elected
Conservative 9150
UK Independence Party 7225
Green 1466
Liberal Democrat 957
Independent 222

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25161 Elected
Conservative 11084
UK Independence Party 1798
Liberal Democrat 853
Green 486
Monster Raving Loony Party 217

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19317 Elected
Conservative 13142
Brexit Party 3039
Liberal Democrat 1642
Green 1124
Monster Raving Loony Party 324

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, Denton and Reddish BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12745527/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 15th May 2024