Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 21746 Elected
Conservative 10841
Liberal 5511
National Front 1546

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 Party/Co-operative Party 21466 Elected
Conservative 9768
Liberal 3636
National Front 1703

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 20708 Elected
Conservative 12807
Liberal 2499
National Front 1139

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 17440 Elected
Conservative 12428
Liberal 9112

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 19760 Elected
Conservative 13362
Liberal 7258

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 23215 Elected
Conservative 12975
Liberal Democrat 3881
Liberal 850

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22202 Elected
Conservative 7020
Liberal Democrat 3292
Referendum Party 980
Socialist Labour Party 689
Liberal 647

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18409 Elected
Conservative 5945
Liberal Democrat 2389
National Front 554

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16790 Elected
Conservative 6295
Liberal Democrat 3682
UK Independence Party 1484

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16505 Elected
Conservative 9912
Liberal Democrat 5277
UK Independence Party 2675
Independent 338

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18539 Elected
Conservative 7761
UK Independence Party 7061
Liberal Democrat 798
Green 605

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21137 Elected
Conservative 12623
UK Independence Party 1675
Liberal Democrat 448
Green 421

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15522 Elected
Conservative 14287
Brexit Party 2094
Liberal Democrat 1019
Green 521

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, Wolverhampton South East BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12747720/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 01st June 2024