Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25921 Elected
Conservative 19196

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25894 Elected
Conservative 19571

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24044 Elected
Conservative 19781

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21496 Elected
Conservative 17749
Liberal 6303

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22081 Elected
Conservative 17671
Liberal 6558

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22935 Elected
Conservative 16911
Liberal 5875

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22806 Elected
Conservative 22272
Liberal 5185

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22643 Elected
Conservative 21946
Liberal 14096

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 22869 Elected
Conservative 20521
Liberal 10409
National Front 1215
Campaign for More Prosperous Britain 125

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 29788 Elected
Labour 24589
Liberal 6650
Ecology Party 595
National Front 484

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29056 Elected
Labour 12876
Social Democratic Party 12189
Ecology Party 591
British National Party 228

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31931 Elected
Labour 14283
Social Democratic Party 11499
Green 656

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30064 Elected
Labour 19181
Liberal Democrat 8953
Green 817
Natural Law 233

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25448 Elected
Conservative 19736
Liberal Democrat 6190
Referendum Party 991

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22016 Elected
Conservative 15638
Liberal Democrat 5667
UK Independence Party 933

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19098 Elected
Conservative 17102
Liberal Democrat 8258
UK Independence Party 1094
Veritas 588

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21971 Elected
Labour 18227
Liberal Democrat 9675
British National Party 2040
UK Independence Party 925

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25762 Elected
Labour 16579
UK Independence Party 5704
Liberal Democrat 2130
Green 1845

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27022 Elected
Labour 22753
Liberal Democrat 1937
UK Independence Party 1465
Green 971

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27954 Elected
Labour 20785
Liberal Democrat 4153
Green 1504
Independent 235

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12754887/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 27th April 2024