Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31462 Elected
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 23955

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31700 Elected
Labour 24418

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23827 Elected
Labour 12591

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24924 Elected
Labour 12132

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th May, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18032 Elected
Labour 11968
Liberal 4567

This was a by-election.

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21502 Elected
Labour 12495
Liberal 6510

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21162 Elected
Labour 12485
Liberal 7390

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25249 Elected
Labour 11773
Liberal 8867

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30843 Elected
Liberal 20339
Labour 15655

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27671 Elected
Liberal 18451
Labour 16153

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 38198 Elected
Labour 15378
Liberal 14228
Wessex Regionalists 395

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31908 Elected
Social Democratic Party 18861
Labour 4512
Wessex Regionalists 155

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32195 Elected
Social Democratic Party 24716
Labour 4028
Green 565

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33113 Elected
Liberal Democrat 24992
Labour 4917
Independent Conservative 3095

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 26100 Elected
Conservative 26098
Labour 6528
Referendum Party 1598
Independent (1) 640
UK Independence Party 476
Independent (2) 307
Monster Raving Loony Party 307

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 20th Nov, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 37006 Elected
Conservative 15450
Labour 944
UK Independence Party 521
Monster Raving Loony Party 316
Literal Democrat Mark Here To Win 59
Natural Law 48
Euro Conservative 40

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 32282 Elected
Conservative 22648
Labour 3498
UK Independence Party 664
Wessex Regionalists 66

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 31225 Elected
Conservative 23749
Labour 4782
UK Independence Party 1321
Independent 581

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27155 Elected
Liberal Democrat 24107
Labour 3051
UK Independence Party 1139
English Democrats 503

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30425 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13511
Labour 4613
UK Independence Party 4122
Green 2645

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29729 Elected
Liberal Democrat 19730
Labour 6007
Green 846
UK Independence Party 695
Justice & Anti-Corruption Party 149

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28430 Elected
Liberal Democrat 27445
Labour 2723
Justice & Anti-Corruption Party 292

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, Winchester CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12756940/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 23rd April 2024