Political Parties


Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18318 Elected
Scottish National Party 7059
Liberal Democrat 6123
Conservative 3692
Scottish Socialist Party 906

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20993 Elected
Scottish National Party 6577
Liberal Democrat 5007
Conservative 4502
UK Independence Party 433

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 30th Jun, 2011
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15118 Elected
Scottish National Party 9280
Conservative 2784
Liberal Democrat 627
UK Independence Party 288

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 24585 Elected
Labour 13522
Conservative 4446
Liberal Democrat 1106
UK Independence Party 715
Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol Party 233

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 15050 Elected
Labour 14666
Conservative 8399
Liberal Democrat 978

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 19295 Elected
Labour 11783
Conservative 6265
Liberal Democrat 2560

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12797760/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 01st May 2024