Political Parties


Election of 14th Dec, 1918
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 7762 Elected
Independent 4737

More information about the 1918 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 7416 Elected
Labour 6942
Liberal 3770

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 8570 Elected
Conservative 6731
Liberal 3578

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 11320 Elected
Labour 9173

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jan, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 7917 Elected
Conservative 6965
Liberal 3130
Scottish National Party 842

This was a by-election.

Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 11219 Elected
Labour 10779
Liberal 6726

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22211 Elected
Labour 8501

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23711 Elected
Labour 13970

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Feb, 1943
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 11620 Elected
Common Wealth Movement 10751

This was a by-election.

Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24834 Elected
Labour 23657
Common Wealth Movement 3299

More information about the 1945 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, Midlothian and Peeblesshire Northern PDivCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12754620/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 26th April 2024