Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28434 Elected
Liberal 15368
Labour 12168
Wessex Regionalists 213

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31537 Elected
Liberal 15393
Labour 14231

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31389 Elected
Labour 18048
Liberal Democrat 14834
Green 800

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24117 Elected
Conservative 19318
Liberal Democrat 9205
Referendum Party 1327
UK Independence Party 438
Monster Raving Loony Party 225
Natural Law 92

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23206 Elected
Conservative 17593
Liberal Democrat 7135
Green 958
UK Independence Party 655

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20686 Elected
Conservative 18847
Liberal Democrat 10050
UK Independence Party 1129
Independent 221

More information about the 2005 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, Wansdyke CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12749053/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 20th May 2024