Political Parties


Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22796 Elected
Conservative 21691

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26498 Elected
Labour 26235

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29425 Elected
Conservative 29062

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 33831 Elected
Conservative 29250

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Mar, 1968
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33344 Elected
Labour 18081

This was a by-election.

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 40077 Elected
Labour 35353

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 40541 Elected
Conservative 36056

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 34641 Elected
Conservative 25675
Liberal 12782

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 37151 Elected
Labour 33024
Liberal 4966
National Front 1032

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28474 Elected
Labour 13456
Social Democratic Party 10674
National Front 460

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31935 Elected
Labour 15115
Social Democratic Party 10896

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33462 Elected
Labour 18763
Liberal Democrat 8489

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22997 Elected
Labour 22415
Liberal Democrat 7098
Referendum Party 2208

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21246 Elected
Labour 17462
Liberal Democrat 4941
UK Independence Party 910

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22416 Elected
Labour 15407
Liberal Democrat 7113
UK Independence Party 1567

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26956 Elected
Labour 10703
Liberal Democrat 9278
British National Party 2511
UK Independence Party 1378
Green 678
Solihull & Meriden Residents' Association 658

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28791 Elected
Labour 9996
UK Independence Party 8908
Liberal Democrat 2638
Green 2170
Independence from Europe 100

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33873 Elected
Labour 14675
Liberal Democrat 2663
UK Independence Party 2016
Green 1416

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 34358 Elected
Labour 11522
Liberal Democrat 5614
Green 2667

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, Meriden CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748802/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 26th April 2024