Political Parties


Election of 10th Dec 1832 to 8th Jan, 1833
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) -1 Elected
Liberal (2) -1 Elected

More information about the 1833 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Jan 1835 to 6th Feb, 1835
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 720 Elected
Liberal (2) 687 Elected
Conservative 667

More information about the 1835 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 24th Jul 1837 to 18th Aug, 1837
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 780 Elected
Liberal (2) 772 Elected
Conservative (1) 551
Conservative (2) 466

More information about the 1837 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jun 1841 to 22nd Jul, 1841
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 821 Elected
Liberal (2) 787 Elected
Conservative 552

More information about the 1841 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jul, 1846
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 716 Elected
Chartists 188 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 29th Jul 1847 to 26th Aug, 1847
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 921 Elected
Conservative 837 Elected
Liberal (2) 769

More information about the 1847 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jul 1852 to 31st Jul, 1852
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1036 Elected
Liberal (1) 1004 Elected
Liberal (2) 906
Liberal (3) 372

More information about the 1852 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 2nd Jun, 1853
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 944 Elected
Liberal 876 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 27th Mar 1857 to 24th Apr, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1167 Elected
Liberal (2) 1106 Elected
Conservative 622

More information about the 1857 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Apr 1859 to 18th May, 1859
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1153 Elected
Liberal (1) 1086 Elected
Liberal (2) 964

More information about the 1859 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Oct, 1861
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 1179 Elected
Conservative 984 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 17th Oct, 1863
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 11th Jul 1865 to 24th Jul, 1865
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1299 Elected
Liberal (2) 1218 Elected
Conservative 1147

More information about the 1865 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 17th Nov 1868 to 7th Dec, 1868
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 2086 Elected
Liberal (2) 2065 Elected
Conservative 1506

More information about the 1868 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 21st Dec, 1868
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 15th Aug, 1870
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 22nd Nov, 1871
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1753 Elected
Liberal 1511 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 31st Jan 1874 to 17th Feb, 1874
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 2045 Elected
Conservative (2) 2000 Elected
Liberal (1) 1714
Liberal (2) 1700

More information about the 1874 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar 1880 to 27th Apr, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 2442 Elected
Liberal (1) 2406 Elected
Liberal (2) 2402
Conservative (2) 2384

More information about the 1880 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Jul, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 2449 Elected
Liberal 2305 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 24th Nov 1885 to 18th Dec, 1885
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 4354 Elected
Conservative (2) 4240 Elected
Liberal (1) 4132
Liberal (2) 3968

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 (1) 4137 Elected
Conservative (2) 4133 Elected
Liberal (1) 3255
Liberal (2) 3175

More information about the 1886 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Aug, 1886
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 4th Jul 1892 to 26th Jul, 1892
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 5081 Elected
Conservative (2) 5081 Elected
Liberal (1) 4921 Elected
Liberal (2) 4861

More information about the 1892 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 13th Jul 1895 to 7th Aug, 1895
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 5575 Elected
Liberal (1) 5482 Elected
Conservative (2) 5456
Liberal (2) 5298

More information about the 1895 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Jan, 1898
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 5966 Elected
Conservative 5802 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 16th Feb, 1900
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 1st Oct 1900 to 24th Oct, 1900
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 6009 Elected
Conservative (Liberal) 6005 Elected
Liberal (1) 5460
Liberal (2) 5264

More information about the 1900 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Jan 1906 to 8th Feb, 1906
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 9021 Elected
Liberal (2) 8914 Elected
Conservative (1) 6547
Conservative (2) 6234

More information about the 1906 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Jan 1910 to 10th Feb, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 8091 Elected
Liberal (2) 7961 Elected
Conservative (1) 7650
Conservative (2) 7556

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd Dec 1910 to 19th Dec, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 8113 Elected
Conservative (2) 7942 Elected
Liberal (1) 7379 Elected
Liberal (2) 7260 Elected

More information about the 1910 Dec 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, Plymouth PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12743210/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 26th April 2024