Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25511 Elected
Conservative 14558
Liberal Democrat 4617
Socialist Party of Great Britain 3262
Referendum Party 943
Liberal 725
British National Party 328
Rainbow Dream Ticket 180

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20125 Elected
Conservative 11846
Liberal Democrat 5672
Socialist Alliance 1475
Independent 564
Socialist Labour Party 414

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18649 Elected
Conservative 12394
Liberal Democrat 7228
Socialist Alternative 1097
UK Independence Party 829
Independent 344
Families First 144

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19197 Elected
Conservative 15352
Liberal Democrat 8278
UK Independence Party 1767
Socialist Alternative 691
Green 639

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18472 Elected
Conservative 15284
UK Independence Party 5709
Liberal Democrat 1779
Green 1719
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 650
Mainstream 86

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25874 Elected
Conservative 17927
Liberal Democrat 1343
UK Independence Party 1037
Green 604
Independent 224

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19544 Elected
Conservative 19143
Liberal Democrat 3398
Brexit Party 1432
Green 1092
Independent 435

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12757608/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 05th May 2024