Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27214 Elected
Labour 18393
Liberal 12246

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28056 Elected
Labour 23074
Liberal 9097

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28028 Elected
Conservative 27908
Liberal Democrat 7226
Green 596
Natural Law 125

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27470 Elected
Conservative 16521
Liberal Democrat 5435
Referendum Party 1108
British National Party 674

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20251 Elected
Conservative 15281
Liberal Democrat 6079

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19073 Elected
Conservative 15397
Liberal Democrat 6670
British National Party 1736
Green 821
UK Independence Party 740

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19691 Elected
Labour 15198
Liberal Democrat 8541
UK Independence Party 1617
National Front 1062
English Democrats 663
Impact Party 243
Independent 113

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22847 Elected
Labour 17193
UK Independence Party 6862
Green 1046
Liberal Democrat 806
Independent 122
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 103
Northern Party 45

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25499 Elected
Labour 22283
Liberal Democrat 1550
Green 824

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27570 Elected
Labour 18048
Liberal Democrat 2011
Green 1193

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, Rossendale and Darwen BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12740451/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 25th April 2024