Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17671 Elected
Labour 15512
Liberal 9511

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19681 Elected
Labour 17818
Liberal 5863

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23012 Elected
Labour 19048

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21301 Elected
Labour 16127
Liberal 8099

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 16th Nov, 1960
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17503 Elected
Labour 11281
Liberal 9550
New Conservative Party 235

This was a by-election.

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22414 Elected
Labour 17096
Liberal 9184

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23447 Elected
Labour 20369
Liberal 7138

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29670 Elected
Labour 19035
Liberal 7799

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28973 Elected
Labour 17862
Liberal 17151

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 26885 Elected
Labour 17559
Liberal 14388

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 37724 Elected
Labour 17140
Liberal 11467

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33042 Elected
Liberal 15661
Labour 9420

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 37411 Elected
Social Democratic Party 14560
Labour 11463

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 40230 Elected
Labour 15092
Liberal Democrat 11957
Liberal 1582
Natural Law 279

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24176 Elected
Labour 17086
Liberal Democrat 8823
Referendum Party 2257
Natural Law 174

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22109 Elected
Labour 14043
Liberal Democrat 9205
UK Independence Party 1281

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23345 Elected
Liberal Democrat 11990
Labour 11351
UK Independence Party 1372
Green 1292
Veritas 769
Independent 301

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28815 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13663
Labour 8108
UK Independence Party 2826
Green 773
English Democrats 712

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32544 Elected
Labour 9217
UK Independence Party 8966
Liberal Democrat 4193
Green 2462
Independent 384
Monster Raving Loony Party 294

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 38936 Elected
Labour 17953
Liberal Democrat 3788
Green 1794
Monster Raving Loony Party 667

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 38692 Elected
Labour 14028
Liberal Democrat 8171
Green 2478
Independent 812
Monster Raving Loony Party 536

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12736630/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 25th April 2024