Political Parties


Election of 14th Dec, 1918
Party Votes Outcome
Coalition Liberal 13568 Elected
Labour 6652

More information about the 1918 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 12991 Elected
Labour 10752

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 10992 Elected
Liberal 8185
Conservative 6298

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 14237 Elected
Labour 13054

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17368 Elected
Conservative 10939
Liberal 7700

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Nov, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Labour (National Labour) 18465 Elected
Conservative 13270
Communist Party of Great Britain 1448

This was a by-election.

Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
National Labour Organisation 21803 Elected
Independent Labour Party 14767

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 2nd Nov, 1933
Party Votes Outcome
National Labour Organisation 12577 Elected
Labour 9924
Independent Labour Party 7575
Scottish National Party & Scottish Party 6098

This was a by-election.

Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
National Labour Organisation 19115 Elected
Labour 12558
Independent Labour Party 3582
Scottish National Party 2346

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23837 Elected
Conservative 16300

More information about the 1945 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th Dec, 1946
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22456 Elected
Conservative 12239
Scottish National Party 2932

This was a by-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, Ayrshire and Bute Kilmarnock PDivCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12753147/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 25th April 2024