Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 13241 Elected
Conservative 11936
Social Democratic Party 7192
National Front 444
Ecology Party 424

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 13748 Elected
Labour 12236
Social Democratic Party 8852
Independent 396

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16251 Elected
Conservative 13229
Liberal Democrat 5142
Green 594
Liberal 241
Natural Law 94

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25287 Elected
Conservative 8138
Liberal Democrat 5491
Referendum Party 1139

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21402 Elected
Conservative 6221
Liberal Democrat 5024
Socialist Alternative 806
British National Party 389
UK Independence Party 298
ProLife Alliance 289

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17323 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9330
Conservative 6254
UK Independence Party 810
Socialist Alternative 727

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21252 Elected
Liberal Democrat 11774
Conservative 5734
UK Independence Party 823
Green 767
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 279
Christian Party 248
Independent 117

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour & Co-operative 28779 Elected
Conservative 5584
Green 2661
UK Independence Party 2507
Liberal Democrat 1661
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 394
Independent 129
Workers' Revolutionary Party 81

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 38793 Elected
Conservative 6776
Liberal Democrat 1384
Green 1190

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 36784 Elected
Conservative 5922
Liberal Democrat 2874
Green 1733
Brexit Party 768
Christian People's Alliance 254

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12747378/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 01st May 2024