Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22943 Elected
Labour 21177
Liberal 9148
National Front 1639

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 21588 Elected
Conservative 20455
Liberal 5709
National Front 2072
Communist Party of England 136

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24548 Elected
Conservative 22550
Liberal 4856
National Front 940

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21424 Elected
Labour 21417
Liberal 9410
Ecology Party 495
British National Party 280
Workers' Party 161

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24901 Elected
Conservative 23024
Liberal 7773
Green 390
Independent Labour 192
Workers' Party 96

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27934 Elected
Conservative 18494
Liberal Democrat 6271
Green 554
Natural Law 154

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27914 Elected
Conservative 11421
Liberal Democrat 6654
Referendum Party 1184
Socialist Labour Party 634
National Democratic Resistance 307

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22958 Elected
Conservative 9715
Liberal Democrat 7243
Green 1217
Socialist Labour Party 676
UK Independence Party 330

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Jul, 2004
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 10274 Elected
Labour 8620
Conservative 5796
Respect - The Unity Coalition 3724
Socialist Labour Movement 263
Monster Raving Loony Party 225
Independent (1) 204
Independent (2) 186
Independent (3) 55
Independent (4) 36
Independent (5) 25

This was a by-election.

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16688 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12971
Conservative 7549
Respect - The Unity Coalition 2720
Green 1379
Veritas 573
Socialist Labour Party 315
Independent 216

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21479 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12671
Conservative 10066
British National Party 1418
Green 770
UK Independence Party 720

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2011
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19771 Elected
Liberal Democrat 7693
Conservative 5169
UK Independence Party 994
Monster Raving Loony Party 553

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour & Co-operative 27473 Elected
Conservative 9628
UK Independence Party 3832
Green 2533
Liberal Democrat 2127
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 349

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 37157 Elected
Conservative 10896
Liberal Democrat 1287
Green 1177

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 33606 Elected
Conservative 10931
Liberal Democrat 2754
Green 1669
Brexit Party 1187

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, Leicester South BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12756434/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 19th May 2024