Groupings of Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22978
Conservative 16050
Liberal 6991
Right 1145

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 22160
Conservative 13383
Liberal 6119
Right 1413

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 20105
Conservative 19425
Liberal 3487
Right 687

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14930
Conservative 14699
Left 7915

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17037
Conservative 14570
Left 5530

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18549
Conservative 13814
Liberal 4398

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23764
Conservative 11107
Liberal 4112
Other 1424

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17375
Conservative 7413
Liberal 3602
Right 1202
Left 1012

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16810
Conservative 7235
Liberal 5027
Right 2674

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14869
Conservative 11592
Liberal 5742
Right 2886
Other 457

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15824
Conservative 10695
Right 6040
Liberal 965
Other 948
Left 212

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21571
Conservative 14286
Liberal 750
Other 610

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17720
Conservative 14119
Other 2089
Liberal 1301

More information about the 2019 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd Mar, 2022
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 9413
Conservative 6147
Other 864
Left 360
Liberal 173

This was a by-election.


The election result data we hold includes over two 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 yo...


ur 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 for the Isle of Wight.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Birmingham Erdington BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Groupings of Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12757414/cube/POL_PARTY_GROUP

Date accessed: 15th May 2024