Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27639 Elected
Social Democratic Party 13362
Labour 12789
Independent 212

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1984
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18713 Elected
Social Democratic Party (1981) 14733
Labour 12677
Independent 210

This was a by-election.

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29541 Elected
Social Democratic Party 15834
Labour 12177

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30876 Elected
Labour 19976
Liberal Democrat 10702
Independent 178
Natural Law 176

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24606 Elected
Conservative 20292
Liberal Democrat 5480
Referendum Party 1146
Monster Raving Loony Party 248

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21285 Elected
Conservative 16253
Liberal Democrat 4205
UK Independence Party 2315
Rock N Roll Loony Party 308

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19889 Elected
Conservative 17768
Liberal Democrat 6390
UK Independence Party 1507

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22047 Elected
Labour 16587
Liberal Democrat 8211
UK Independence Party 1727
British National Party 1103
Green 564

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23606 Elected
Labour 14429
UK Independence Party 6293
National Health Action Party 1701
Green 1390
Liberal Democrat 1348

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28424 Elected
Labour 20695
Liberal Democrat 1540
Green 1265

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29992 Elected
Labour 15615
Liberal Democrat 3175
Green 2367

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12756975/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 06th June 2024