Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23847 Elected
Conservative 23527
Liberal 7304

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 24352 Elected
Conservative 23007
Liberal 5208
Campaign for More Prosperous Britain 527

More information about the 1974 Oct General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26356 Elected
Labour 24045
Liberal 3354
National Front 298
WRP 122

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31413 Elected
Social Democratic Party 13414
Labour 12013

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33297 Elected
Social Democratic Party 14896
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 12016

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32240 Elected
Labour 18359
Liberal Democrat 10101
Green 628

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21339 Elected
Conservative 17016
Liberal Democrat 4788
Referendum Party 1757
UK Independence Party 298
Independent 72

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18676 Elected
Conservative 13542
Liberal Democrat 3795
UK Independence Party 559
Independent 294

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15412 Elected
Conservative 14273
Liberal Democrat 6684
UK Independence Party 1348

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19533 Elected
Labour 12244
Liberal Democrat 8874
UK Independence Party 1812
English Democrats 1040
Green 461
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 154

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21343 Elected
Labour 10806
UK Independence Party 8660
Liberal Democrat 2828
Green 1450
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 231
Justice & Anti-Corruption Party 72

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25860 Elected
Labour 15895
Liberal Democrat 2608
UK Independence Party 1926
Green 791
Libertarian Party 130

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28172 Elected
Labour 12392
Liberal Democrat 3419
Green 1304
Independent 623

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, Portsmouth North BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12757785/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 14th May 2024