Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23233 Elected
Independent Conservative 22872
Liberal 2706

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24771 Elected
Conservative 24188

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24994 Elected
Conservative 23656

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25641 Elected
Conservative 24965

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24710 Elected
Conservative 20997
Liberal 5331

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27319 Elected
Conservative 22575

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26577 Elected
Labour 24900
Liberal 4428
Independent 334

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25440 Elected
Conservative 25035
Liberal 12652

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 27290 Elected
Conservative 24577
Liberal 9831
Campaign for More Prosperous Britain 185

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 31125 Elected
Labour 28546
Liberal 6388
National Front 379

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27861 Elected
Labour 17586
Social Democratic Party 11691
Ecology Party 451
Independent 114

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29015 Elected
Labour 20958
Liberal 9706
Green 714

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30715 Elected
Labour 26469
Liberal Democrat 7452
Natural Law 402

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30607 Elected
Conservative 20737
Liberal Democrat 4900
Referendum Party 1319
Natural Law 143

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25088 Elected
Conservative 16644
Liberal Democrat 5372
UK Independence Party 848

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25131 Elected
Conservative 17506
Liberal Democrat 6932

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21515 Elected
Conservative 18922
Liberal Democrat 6957
UK Independence Party 2021
Independent 359

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23322 Elected
Conservative 18792
UK Independence Party 6995
Liberal Democrat 1354
Green 1111
Independent 138

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30745 Elected
Conservative 23233
Liberal Democrat 1126
Green 530

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Speaker 26831 Elected
Independent 9439
Green 3600

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748334/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 13th June 2024