Political Parties


Election of 24th Nov 1885 to 18th Dec, 1885
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 3625 Elected
Conservative 2960

More information about the 1885 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st Jul 1886 to 27th Jul, 1886
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 3139 Elected
Liberal 3102

More information about the 1886 General Election is available here.

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Election of 4th Jul 1892 to 26th Jul, 1892
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 4570 Elected
Conservative 3738

More information about the 1892 General Election is available here.

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Election of 13th Jul 1895 to 7th Aug, 1895
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 4305 Elected
Liberal 4152

More information about the 1895 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st Oct 1900 to 24th Oct, 1900
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 5264 Elected
Liberal 4428

More information about the 1900 General Election is available here.

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Election of 12th Jan 1906 to 8th Feb, 1906
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 6881 Elected
Conservative 4519

More information about the 1906 General Election is available here.

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Election of 15th Jan 1910 to 10th Feb, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 7627 Elected
Conservative 5611

More information about the 1910 Feb General Election is available here.

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Election of 3rd Dec 1910 to 19th Dec, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 7196 Elected
Conservative 5387

More information about the 1910 Dec General Election is available here.

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Election of 14th Dec, 1918
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 9566 Elected
Liberal 4947
Labour 3725

More information about the 1918 General Election is available here.

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Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 12248 Elected
Liberal 8711
Labour 6934

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

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Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 10657 Elected
Liberal 9600
Labour 7468

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

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Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 12296 Elected
Labour 11130
Liberal 5140
Independent 444

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

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Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20023 Elected
Conservative 13810
Liberal 7217

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

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Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24003 Elected
Labour 18026

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

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Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19054 Elected
Conservative 15448
Liberal 4133

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19443 Elected
Conservative 7439
Liberal 3379

More information about the 1945 General Election is available here.

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Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26903 Elected
Conservative 13988
Liberal 6981

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

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Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27892 Elected
Conservative 16368
Liberal 4611

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

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Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28990 Elected
Conservative 16284
Liberal 7242

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30667 Elected
Conservative 17648
Liberal 10043

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

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Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30634 Elected
Conservative 14284
Liberal 9781

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

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Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 34457 Elected
Conservative 11385
Liberal 6795

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

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Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 36859 Elected
Conservative 14736

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 41300 Elected
Conservative 17707

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

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 34190 Elected
Conservative 10397
Liberal 10196

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

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Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 39411 Elected
Conservative 15719
Liberal 7543
National Front 374

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23615 Elected
Conservative 13541
Liberal 10172

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

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Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27287 Elected
Conservative 12598
Liberal 8572

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30096 Elected
Conservative 11373
Liberal Democrat 6050
Natural Law 323

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

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Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28870 Elected
Conservative 5552
Liberal Democrat 3965
Referendum Party 1788
People's Labour Party 190
Natural Law 121

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19938 Elected
Liberal Democrat 4613
Conservative 4276
UK Independence Party 1218
Socialist Labour Party 830

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17609 Elected
Liberal Democrat 5862
Conservative 4138
British National Party 1022
Liberal 1018
Veritas 750
Independent 334
Socialist Labour Party 207
Legalise Cannabis Alliance 182

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16387 Elected
Liberal Democrat 7790
Conservative 5667
UK Independence Party 2745
National Front 880
English Democrats 715

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18180 Elected
UK Independence Party 7861
Conservative 5593
Liberal Democrat 2294
Green 806
Yorkshire First 270
National Front 86
Social Democratic Party (1990) 54

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21355 Elected
Conservative 10959
UK Independence Party 2573
Liberal Democrat 1258
Green 493

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 12713 Elected
Conservative 11474
Brexit Party 5764
Liberal Democrat 1707
Green 784

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, Kingston upon Hull East PBDivCon/BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12735960/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 01st May 2024