Political Parties


Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24077 Elected
Labour 21651

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30471 Elected
Labour 21689

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32602 Elected
Labour 24532

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30161 Elected
Labour 26280

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 35545 Elected
Labour 24196

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20775 Elected
Conservative 19195
Liberal 6038

More information about the 1974 Feb General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20917 Elected
Conservative 16255
Liberal 5031
National Front 1226
Campaign for More Prosperous Britain 150

More information about the 1974 Oct General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22539 Elected
Conservative 20951
National Front 795

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21735 Elected
Conservative 21033
Social Democratic Party 6586
British National Party 632

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22629 Elected
Conservative 21513
Liberal 6241

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24133 Elected
Conservative 20955
Liberal Democrat 4132
Green 673
Natural Law 167

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25024 Elected
Conservative 13712
Liberal Democrat 2698
Referendum Party 1662
Natural Law 149

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20574 Elected
Conservative 10643
Liberal Democrat 2365
UK Independence Party 974
Socialist Alliance 343

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17633 Elected
Conservative 9687
Liberal Democrat 3240
UK Independence Party 1833
British National Party 1776
Respect - The Unity Coalition 1146

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16211 Elected
Conservative 14456
Liberal Democrat 5880
UK Independence Party 3449
Christian Party 482
No party listed 404

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19740 Elected
Conservative 13733
UK Independence Party 6540
Green 1149
Liberal Democrat 676

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25286 Elected
Conservative 16394
UK Independence Party 1805
Liberal Democrat 587

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20872 Elected
Conservative 17416
Brexit Party 1660
Liberal Democrat 1602
Green 634
Independent 288

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748152/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 27th April 2024