Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22507 Elected
Labour 13851
Social Democratic Party 9658

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23889 Elected
Labour 13960
Social Democratic Party 8450
Green 504

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25924 Elected
Labour 17138
Liberal Democrat 4751
Liberal 1480
Natural Law 234

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21858 Elected
Conservative 16504
Liberal Democrat 4555
Referendum Party 1420
UK Independence Party 405

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18914 Elected
Conservative 15134
Liberal Democrat 3604
UK Independence Party 958

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17333 Elected
Conservative 17120
Liberal Democrat 5152
UK Independence Party 1488

More information about the 2005 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, Medway CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12754851/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 01st May 2024