Political Parties


Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26083 Elected
Conservative 21144

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28707 Elected
Conservative 23922

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29480 Elected
Conservative 21474

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30073 Elected
Conservative 18796

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28827 Elected
Conservative 21112
Communist Party of Great Britain 513

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25550 Elected
Conservative 15036
Liberal 9906

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 24745 Elected
Conservative 12434
Liberal 6970
People Party 327

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 26346 Elected
Conservative 15810
Liberal 4622
National Front 445
Ecology Party 206
WRP 103

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18450 Elected
Conservative 12355
Liberal 10884
National Front 475

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20932 Elected
Conservative 11406
Liberal 10630

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24929 Elected
Conservative 12232
Liberal Democrat 6040

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24151 Elected
Conservative 6685
Liberal Democrat 3689
Referendum Party 1267

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18290 Elected
Conservative 5647
Liberal Democrat 3923
UK Independence Party 634
Socialist Labour Party 419
Independent 142

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17799 Elected
Liberal Democrat 6221
Conservative 5557
Independent 500

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19056 Elected
Conservative 8763
Liberal Democrat 6618
British National Party 2947
Alliance for Green Socialism 429

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20530 Elected
Conservative 7997
UK Independence Party 7256
Liberal Democrat 1296
Green 1117

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25428 Elected
Conservative 12676
UK Independence Party 1742
Liberal Democrat 739
Green 434
The Yorkshire Party 422

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19464 Elected
Conservative 13933
Brexit Party 2981
Liberal Democrat 1796
Green 878

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12757529/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 20th May 2024