Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21595 Elected
Labour 20937
Social Democratic Party 10172

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26816 Elected
Labour 22321
Social Democratic Party 9343

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29788 Elected
Conservative 26878
Liberal Democrat 6039

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 33071 Elected
Conservative 16259
Liberal Democrat 4889
Referendum Party 1882
British National Party 432

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24900 Elected
Conservative 15527
Liberal Democrat 5473

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22824 Elected
Conservative 16172
Liberal Democrat 6384
UK Independence Party 1737

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19211 Elected
Labour 18997
Liberal Democrat 7283
British National Party 1754
UK Independence Party 1490
Independent 219

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22833 Elected
Labour 18186
UK Independence Party 7399
Green 1108
Liberal Democrat 1094
Class War 78

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27492 Elected
Labour 22294
UK Independence Party 1801
Liberal Democrat 1113
Green 664

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32049 Elected
Labour 15863
Liberal Democrat 2883
Green 1214
Independent 700

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748954/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 11th October 2024