Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 15324 Elected
Liberal 15227
Labour 4807

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17392 Elected
Liberal 16645
Labour 2946

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18906 Elected
Liberal 11747
Labour 5633

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Jun, 1957
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 15513 Elected
Liberal 12411
Labour 6278
Independent 170

This was a by-election.

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20255 Elected
Liberal 11604
Labour 6548

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19898 Elected
Liberal 14768
Labour 6253

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20520 Elected
Liberal 15005
Labour 7090

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28471 Elected
Liberal 12095
Labour 8626

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30288 Elected
Liberal 23405
Labour 6032

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28891 Elected
Liberal 20350
Labour 7245

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 40046 Elected
Liberal 16750
Labour 7543

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30058 Elected
Liberal 18678
Labour 2710
Wessex Regionalists 294

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32854 Elected
Liberal 20947
Labour 3819

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 34234 Elected
Liberal Democrat 24154
Labour 4360

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23294 Elected
Liberal Democrat 20548
Labour 5380
Referendum Party 2564
UK Independence Party 801

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22314 Elected
Liberal Democrat 18517
Labour 5334
UK Independence Party 1019
Lower Excise Duty Party 391
Independent 246

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23714 Elected
Liberal Democrat 21470
Labour 4596
UK Independence Party 1918
Green 1117

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27640 Elected
Liberal Democrat 20015
Labour 2910
UK Independence Party 2812
Green 546
Monster Raving Loony Party 218

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30227 Elected
UK Independence Party 9109
Liberal Democrat 6226
Labour 4785
Green 3038

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 10392
Liberal Democrat 7556
Green 1607

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 35705 Elected
Liberal Democrat 11404
Labour 6737
Green 2261

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12754747/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 25th April 2024