Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 14321 Elected
Labour 14142
Liberal 7099

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 14393 Elected
Labour 14252
Liberal 4842

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19125 Elected
Labour 15491
Liberal 3478
National Front 407

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26824 Elected
Social Democratic Party 11698
Labour 11533

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31864 Elected
Labour 14061
Social Democratic Party 10639
Green 647

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 36882 Elected
Labour 19909
Liberal Democrat 9912

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24214 Elected
Conservative 23470
Liberal Democrat 6316
Referendum Party 1405
UK Independence Party 1159
Natural Law 541

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21882 Elected
Conservative 20997
Liberal Democrat 6355
UK Independence Party 1237
Liberated Party 362
ProLife Alliance 196

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23818 Elected
Labour 19399
Liberal Democrat 8327
UK Independence Party 1032
Veritas 508
SOS! Voters Against Overdevelopment of Northampton 437
Monster Raving Loony Party 354
Independent 346
Christian People's Alliance 260

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 15917 Elected
Labour 9913
Liberal Democrat 7579
Independent (1) 2242
UK Independence Party 1897
English Democrats 618
Green 363
Northampton - Save Our Public Services 325
Independent (2) 65
Scrap Members Allowances 59

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 16163 Elected
Labour 12370
UK Independence Party 7114
Liberal Democrat 1673
Green 1403
Independent 161

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19231 Elected
Labour 18072
UK Independence Party 1630
Liberal Democrat 1405
Green 696

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20914 Elected
Labour 16217
Liberal Democrat 2482
Green 1222

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, Northampton South BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12754589/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 17th May 2024