Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20632 Elected
Liberal Democrat 19951
Labour 8014
Referendum Party 2136

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 18358 Elected
Conservative 17974
Labour 6765
UK Independence Party 621

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 22000 Elected
Conservative 16518
Labour 5221
UK Independence Party 1420

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 21100 Elected
Conservative 20831
Labour 2748
UK Independence Party 2109

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23639 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13109
UK Independence Party 5663
Labour 2767
Green 1321

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28585 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13246
Labour 6423

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29548 Elected
Liberal Democrat 14650
Labour 3402
Green 1330

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 Dorset and North Poole CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12740839/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 25th April 2024