Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 32042 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 14117
Liberal 8287
Plaid Cymru 960

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 33759 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 19124
Plaid Cymru 1997

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 17th Mar, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23402 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 12476
Plaid Cymru 4572

This was a by-election.

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27945 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 16286
Plaid Cymru 5139

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30101 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 17144
Plaid Cymru 6579

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30478 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 17240
Plaid Cymru 4673

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30039 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 12596
Liberal 6351
Plaid Cymru 2297

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 31089 Elected
Conservative 15649
Liberal 5067
Plaid Cymru 2894

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27384 Elected
Conservative 14301
Liberal 14297
Plaid Cymru 2624

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28885 Elected
Liberal 12519
Conservative 12251
Plaid Cymru 2859

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30405 Elected
Conservative 18256
Liberal 11389
Plaid Cymru 1740

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16120 Elected
Conservative 15696
Liberal 13974
Plaid Cymru 1239

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22144 Elected
Conservative 17992
Liberal 9808
Plaid Cymru 539

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24830 Elected
Conservative 18114
Liberal Democrat 7074
Plaid Cymru 1415

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20450 Elected
Conservative 8688
Liberal Democrat 4833
Referendum Party 1195
Plaid Cymru 1170
Natural Law 86

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15934 Elected
Conservative 6746
Liberal Democrat 5153
Plaid Cymru 1783
UK Independence Party 432

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 13993 Elected
Liberal Democrat 7174
Conservative 6079
Plaid Cymru 1744
British National Party 919
Forward Wales 476

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 12161 Elected
Liberal Democrat 8503
Conservative 8375
Plaid Cymru 2029
British National Party 1134
UK Independence Party 774

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 12181 Elected
Conservative 10350
UK Independence Party 5072
Plaid Cymru 2501
Liberal Democrat 1735
Green 669
Independent 211

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17153 Elected
Conservative 15321
Plaid Cymru 1753
Liberal Democrat 865

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 15199 Elected
Labour 13068
Plaid Cymru 2151
Liberal Democrat 1447
Brexit Party 1222
Green 445

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, Wrexham CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12754735/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 12th May 2024