Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15665 Elected
Conservative 12668
Social Democratic Party 10769
National Front 645
Communist Party of Great Britain 141

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18454 Elected
Conservative 15985
Social Democratic Party 7088

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22029 Elected
Conservative 15295
Liberal Democrat 4824

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1994
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15474 Elected
Conservative 2130
Liberal Democrat 1804
British National Party 1511
UK Independence Party 457
Natural Law 116

This was a by-election.

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23759 Elected
Conservative 6705
Liberal Democrat 2704
Referendum Party 1411
British National Party 900
Independent 349
National Democratic Resistance 183
People's Labour Party 152

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15784 Elected
Conservative 7091
Liberal Democrat 2820
British National Party 1378
Socialist Alliance 262
Socialist Labour Party 245

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15446 Elected
Conservative 7841
Liberal Democrat 3106
British National Party 2870
UK Independence Party 1578

More information about the 2005 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, Dagenham BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12756331/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 18th May 2024