Political Parties


Election of 10th Dec 1832 to 8th Jan, 1833
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1515 Elected
Liberal (2) 1498 Elected
Liberal (3) 1210
Liberal (4) 813

More information about the 1833 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Jan 1835 to 6th Feb, 1835
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1607 Elected
Liberal (2) 1554 Elected
Liberal (3) 1434

More information about the 1835 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 22nd Aug, 1836
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 414 Elected
Liberal (2) 0 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 24th Jul 1837 to 18th Aug, 1837
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 2186 Elected
Liberal (2) 1976 Elected
Conservative 655

More information about the 1837 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jun 1841 to 22nd Jul, 1841
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1849 Elected
Liberal (2) 1805 Elected
Conservative (1) 503
Conservative (2) 457

More information about the 1841 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jul 1847 to 26th Aug, 1847
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1125 Elected
Liberal (2) 1110 Elected
Chartists 326

More information about the 1847 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1849
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th Jul 1852 to 31st Jul, 1852
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 2092 Elected
Liberal (2) 1853 Elected
Liberal (3) 1580
Conservative 1180

More information about the 1852 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Mar 1857 to 24th Apr, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 3200 Elected
Liberal (2) 2871 Elected
Conservative 2059

More information about the 1857 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Apr 1859 to 18th May, 1859
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) -1 Elected
Liberal (2) -1 Elected

More information about the 1859 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jul 1865 to 24th Jul, 1865
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 3410 Elected
Liberal (2) 3348 Elected
Conservative 2626
Liberal (3) 1576

More information about the 1865 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 17th Nov 1868 to 7th Dec, 1868
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 14793 Elected
Liberal (2) 12212 Elected
Liberal (3) 9571
Conservative 5272

More information about the 1868 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Jan 1874 to 17th Feb, 1874
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 14193 Elected
Liberal (2) 12858 Elected
Liberal (3) 11053
Liberal (4) 621

More information about the 1874 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 21st Dec, 1879
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 14062 Elected
Conservative 13584 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 31st Mar 1880 to 27th Apr, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 17217 Elected
Conservative 16546 Elected
Liberal (2) 16506

More information about the 1880 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.

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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Sheffield PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12749107/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 18th May 2024