Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25569 Elected
Liberal 15418
Labour 3439
British National Party 215

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27261 Elected
Liberal 14529
Labour 5020

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27421 Elected
Liberal Democrat 14486
Labour 5512
Liberal 539

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24417 Elected
Liberal Democrat 21465
Labour 10753
Referendum Party 2316
UK Independence Party 526
Liberal 494
People's Labour Party 191

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22334 Elected
Liberal Democrat 22065
Labour 5517
UK Independence Party 996

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26718 Elected
Liberal Democrat 21771
Labour 4914
UK Independence Party 1331

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29200 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12000
Labour 4400
UK Independence Party 1360
British National Party 1241
Green 511
English Democrats 199

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28152 Elected
UK Independence Party 8173
Labour 7645
Liberal Democrat 3330
Green 1732

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31762 Elected
Labour 12301
Liberal Democrat 3315
UK Independence Party 2023
Green 1060

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30882 Elected
Labour 8504
Liberal Democrat 7552
Green 1783

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12756276/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 17th May 2024