Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33262 Elected
Liberal 14909
Labour 6414
Ecology Party 532

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 37073 Elected
Liberal 14051
Labour 8680

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 38603 Elected
Labour 13068
Liberal Democrat 12682
Green 861
Natural Law 237

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24107 Elected
Labour 15271
Liberal Democrat 10112
Referendum Party 2317
UK Independence Party 823

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22621 Elected
Labour 14009
Liberal Democrat 8386
UK Independence Party 1223
Green 817

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25237 Elected
Labour 12307
Liberal Democrat 9153
UK Independence Party 1554
Veritas 696
Independent 337

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28228 Elected
Liberal Democrat 14228
Labour 7893
UK Independence Party 2526
British National Party 1757
Independent 588

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30383 Elected
UK Independence Party 8678
Labour 8383
Liberal Democrat 4407
Green 2325
Independent 427

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 36169 Elected
Labour 13065
Liberal Democrat 4711
UK Independence Party 1869
Green 1755

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 36507 Elected
Labour 9583
Liberal Democrat 7970
Green 2875
UK Independence Party 917
Independent 458

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, Rutland and Melton CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748360/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 25th April 2024