Political Parties


Election of 10th Dec 1832 to 8th Jan, 1833
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 392 Elected
Conservative 268 Elected
Liberal (2) 265

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
Conservative -1 Elected
Liberal -1 Elected

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
Conservative -1 Elected
Liberal -1 Elected

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
Conservative (1) 366 Elected
Liberal 293 Elected
Conservative (2) 234

More information about the 1841 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 4th May, 1843
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 252 Elected
Liberal 188 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 24th Nov, 1843
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 317 Elected
Liberal 270 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 25th Jan, 1847
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 29th Jul 1847 to 26th Aug, 1847
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 490 Elected
Conservative (1) 374 Elected
Conservative (2) 170

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
Liberal (1) 381 Elected
Liberal (2) 331 Elected
Conservative (1) 173
Conservative (2) 131

More information about the 1852 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Nov, 1853
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 255 Elected
Conservative 88 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 27th Mar 1857 to 24th Apr, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) -1 Elected
Liberal (2) -1 Elected

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
Liberal (1) 370 Elected
Liberal (2) 326 Elected
Conservative 262

More information about the 1859 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jul 1865 to 24th Jul, 1865
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 367 Elected
Liberal (2) 312 Elected
Conservative 252

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) 748 Elected
Liberal (2) 679 Elected
Conservative 623

More information about the 1868 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th Aug, 1869
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 562 Elected
Conservative 549 Elected
Liberal (2) 82

This was a by-election.

Election of 31st Jan 1874 to 17th Feb, 1874
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 835 Elected
Liberal (1) 800 Elected
Conservative (2) 783
Liberal (2) 759

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
Liberal (1) 961 Elected
Liberal (2) 958 Elected
Conservative (1) 841
Conservative (2) 828

More information about the 1880 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 21st Nov, 1882
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 955 Elected
Liberal 852 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 24th Nov 1885 to 18th Dec, 1885
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 1144 Elected
Conservative 1104

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 1259 Elected
Liberal 910

More information about the 1886 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 4th Jul 1892 to 26th Jul, 1892
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1374 Elected
Liberal 1136

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 1404 Elected
Liberal 1187

More information about the 1895 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Jan, 1897
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1425 Elected
Liberal 1278

This was a by-election.

Election of 1st Oct 1900 to 24th Oct, 1900
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1399 Elected
Liberal 1160

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 1646 Elected
Conservative 1605

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
Conservative 1803 Elected
Liberal 1485

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 1750 Elected
Liberal 1413

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, Salisbury PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12743737/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 04th May 2024