Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26040 Elected
Liberal 14792
Labour 11691

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 23234 Elected
Liberal 12606
Labour 12253

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 31938 Elected
Labour 10443
Liberal 8853
National Front 548

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th May, 1982
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23049 Elected
Liberal 9996
Labour 3886
New Britain 225
Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident 99
Benn in Ten Unless Proportional Representation 51

This was a by-election.

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30552 Elected
Liberal 12252
Labour 5107

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33324 Elected
Liberal 11985
Labour 5203

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33817 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10220
Labour 7163
Independent Conservative 1317
Natural Law 196
Independent 166

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24709 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10722
Labour 10063
Referendum Party 2197
Independent (1) 1434
UK Independence Party 451
People's Labour Party 286
Natural Law 193
Independent (2) 146

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22233 Elected
Labour 9168
Liberal Democrat 9117
UK Independence Party 1626

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24126 Elected
Liberal Democrat 8873
Labour 8422
UK Independence Party 2102

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32053 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10271
Labour 6135
UK Independence Party 2597
Green 768
A Vote Against MP Expense Abuse 475
Independent 191

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33621 Elected
UK Independence Party 7310
Labour 6074
Liberal Democrat 3927
Green 2231

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 36559 Elected
Labour 12016
Liberal Democrat 4448
UK Independence Party 1609
Green 1396

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32477 Elected
Independent (1) 16765
Labour 5756
Green 2033
Independent (2) 837

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748437/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 01st May 2024