Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23027 Elected
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 13931
Liberal 5953

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24137 Elected
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 14287
Liberal 4740

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27210 Elected
Labour 16903

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26966 Elected
Labour 14465
Liberal 8205

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24380 Elected
Labour 14991
Liberal 11058

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24163 Elected
Labour 16649
Liberal 10197

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28462 Elected
Labour 15433
Liberal 8952

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30131 Elected
Liberal 16071
Labour 13547
People's Power 254

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 27769 Elected
Labour 14185
Liberal 12554
People Power 266

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 33767 Elected
Labour 12454
Liberal 10257

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29932 Elected
Social Democratic Party 13625
Labour 6114
Ecology Party 1029

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30925 Elected
Social Democratic Party 12752
Labour 7460
Green 1026

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32220 Elected
Liberal Democrat 14566
Labour 9150
Independent Independent SD 513

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21123 Elected
Labour 13382
Liberal Democrat 9615
Referendum Party 3352
Independent 412
UK Independence Party 290

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18875 Elected
Labour 10850
Liberal Democrat 8330
UK Independence Party 1062
Reform UK Party 357

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20884 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9896
Labour 8896
UK Independence Party 1921
English Democrats 600
Independent 408

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26688 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13097
Labour 5672
UK Independence Party 2089
British National Party 1345
Green 1087

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29151 Elected
UK Independence Party 6817
Labour 6578
Liberal Democrat 5369
Green 3434

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30896 Elected
Labour 13282
Liberal Democrat 5889
Green 2214
UK Independence Party 1542

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28665 Elected
Labour 10355
Liberal Democrat 10320
Green 3169
UK Independence Party 647

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, Reigate BCon/CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12756665/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 25th April 2024