Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21238 Elected
Labour 15066
Liberal 4355

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24951 Elected
Labour 16402

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Oct, 1954
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19108 Elected
Labour 12701

This was a by-election.

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22701 Elected
Labour 13129
Liberal 4232

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25161 Elected
Labour 12270
Liberal 5679

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25797 Elected
Labour 13718
Liberal 10066

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25672 Elected
Labour 16776
Liberal 10025

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33447 Elected
Labour 18916
Liberal 7551

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29401 Elected
Liberal 18743
Labour 15492
National Front 1148

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 26463 Elected
Liberal 16104
Labour 14936
National Front 1120

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 38014 Elected
Liberal 14438
Labour 13698

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31288 Elected
Liberal 19070
Labour 6070

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 35272 Elected
Liberal 17488
Labour 7061

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 36974 Elected
Liberal Democrat 17786
Labour 8552
Liberal 1038

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23119 Elected
Liberal Democrat 16498
Labour 13057
UK Independence Party 794
Independent 361
British National Party 322

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19106 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12512
Labour 11394
UK Independence Party 797
Green 630
Independent 459
Monster Raving Loony Party 390

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20572 Elected
Liberal Democrat 15238
Labour 9895
UK Independence Party 1182
English Democrats 701
Monster Raving Loony Party 553

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21203 Elected
Liberal Democrat 15617
Labour 5489
UK Independence Party 2041
English Independence Party 803
Christian Party 231

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23369 Elected
Labour 8468
UK Independence Party 8253
Liberal Democrat 4076
Green 2025

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26950 Elected
Labour 15477
Liberal Democrat 3637
UK Independence Party 1796
Green 1090

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27980 Elected
Labour 11282
Liberal Democrat 6920
Green 1750

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, Aldershot BCon/CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748231/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 09th May 2024