Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16583 Elected
Social Democratic Party 13340
Conservative 11657
Independent 406

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19604 Elected
Social Democratic Party 18751
Conservative 7823

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24542 Elected
Liberal Democrat 16498
Conservative 7691
Green 470

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27276 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9540
Conservative 5666

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20627 Elected
Liberal Democrat 8439
Conservative 5484

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19659 Elected
Liberal Democrat 11132
Conservative 4982

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17156 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10488
Conservative 6412
British National Party 1699
UK Independence Party 1665
Independent 819
English Democrats 327

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17813 Elected
UK Independence Party 8584
Conservative 8346
Liberal Democrat 2265
Green 1453

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23770 Elected
Conservative 15855
Liberal Democrat 1947
Green 918

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17440 Elected
Labour 16728
Brexit Party 3394
Liberal Democrat 2151
Green 1146

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, Blyth Valley BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12744961/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 30th April 2024