Political Parties


Election of 14th Dec, 1918
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 11473 Elected
Labour 9757
Liberal 3805
National Democratic & Labour Party 564

More information about the 1918 General Election is available here.

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Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17093 Elected
Labour 16449

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

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Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16983 Elected
Conservative 14535

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

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Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18860 Elected
Conservative 15712

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

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Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26937 Elected
Conservative 10101
Liberal 7534

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

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Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23596 Elected
Labour 22834

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

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Election of 27th Feb, 1933
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28767 Elected
Conservative 12893

This was a by-election.

Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29725 Elected
National Liberal 14298

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 35654 Elected
National Liberal 12420

More information about the 1945 General Election is available here.

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Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 31211 Elected
Conservative 14744
Liberal 2458

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

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Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 31124 Elected
Conservative 16317

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

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Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27423 Elected
Conservative 15882

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28298 Elected
Conservative 16759

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Mar, 1963
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22441 Elected
Conservative 9209
Independent 742

This was a by-election.

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27585 Elected
Conservative 13907

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

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Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27402 Elected
Conservative 11925

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

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Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25246 Elected
Conservative 12770

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27088 Elected
Conservative 10354
Liberal 7726

More information about the 1974 Feb General Election is available here.

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25874 Elected
Conservative 8840
Liberal 5350

More information about the 1974 Oct General Election is available here.

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Election of 24th Jun, 1976
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14351 Elected
Conservative 9824
Liberal 2214
National Front 1696
World Grid Sunshine Party 129
English Independent 99

This was a by-election.

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26580 Elected
Conservative 13145
Liberal 3686
National Front 490

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22236 Elected
Conservative 10523
Liberal 8192

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

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Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25422 Elected
Conservative 9410
Liberal 7766

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27933 Elected
Conservative 10372
Liberal Democrat 5375

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th May, 1994
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14912 Elected
Liberal Democrat 7958
Conservative 2649
Monster Raving Loony Party 1114
Natural Law 173

This was a by-election.

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26852 Elected
Conservative 5383
Liberal Democrat 3919
Referendum Party 1132
People's Labour Party 364

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18759 Elected
Conservative 5682
Liberal Democrat 3117
UK Independence Party 730
Green 577
Socialist Alliance 352
John Liburne Democratic Party 137

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15840 Elected
Liberal Democrat 5159
Conservative 4966
British National Party 1986
UK Independence Party 1122
Green 905

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

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Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16741 Elected
Conservative 6279
Liberal Democrat 5994
British National Party 3906
Independent 2366
UK Independence Party 2220

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

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Election of 29th Nov, 2012
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 9966 Elected
UK Independence Party 4648
British National Party 1804
Respect - The Unity Coalition 1778
Conservative 1157
English Democrats 703
Independent (1) 582
Liberal Democrat 451
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 281
Independent (2) 51
Independent (3) 29

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19860 Elected
UK Independence Party 11414
Conservative 4656
Liberal Democrat 1093
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 409
British National Party 225
English Democrats 166

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21404 Elected
Conservative 10017
UK Independence Party 3316
Liberal Democrat 1754
The Yorkshire Party 1432

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

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Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14736 Elected
Conservative 11615
Brexit Party 6125
Liberal Democrat 2090
The Yorkshire Party 1085

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, Rotherham PBCon/BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12749790/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 22nd May 2024