Political Parties


Election of 14th Dec, 1918
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

More information about the 1918 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 16763 Elected
Labour 8424

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24359 Elected
Labour 8782

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 30th Apr, 1928
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 12859 Elected
Labour 6721
Liberal 3318

This was a by-election.

Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26247 Elected
Labour 10960
Liberal 5520

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 39976 Elected
Labour 6147

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Apr, 1932
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 11677 Elected
Independent Conservative 10664

This was a by-election.

Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31183 Elected
Labour 8008

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 15891 Elected
Labour 10740
Independent Conservative 3824
Liberal 2711

More information about the 1945 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26310 Elected
Labour 12890
Liberal 4149

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28783 Elected
Labour 13964

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26302 Elected
Labour 10903

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23278 Elected
Labour 8507
Liberal 4304

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th Dec, 1963
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 12495 Elected
Labour 7219
Liberal 3016

This was a by-election.

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18117 Elected
Labour 9324
Liberal 4776

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17433 Elected
Labour 9382
Liberal 3258
Independent (1) 445
Independent (2) 252

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17639 Elected
Labour 8325
Liberal 2443

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 22nd Oct, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 10684 Elected
Labour 4542
Liberal 1038
National Front 401
Independent 163

This was a by-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, St Marylebone BCon/PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12749764/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 02nd May 2024