Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31722 Elected
Social Democratic Party 11984
Labour 3590

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 35656 Elected
Social Democratic Party 13282
Labour 5174

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 36627 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13612
Labour 6997
Natural Law 243
Independent 175

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jul, 1993
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 33164 Elected
Conservative 16737
Labour 1453
Anti-Maasricht/Anti-Federalist League 878
Monster Raving Loony Party 404
Independent (1) 357
Independent (2) 80
Independent (3) 67
Independent (4) 60
Independent (5) 48
Natural Law 45
Independent (6) 23
Independent (7) 18
Independent (8) 16

This was a by-election.

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26095 Elected
Liberal Democrat 23930
Labour 3884
Referendum Party 1684
UK Independence Party 606

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27306 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13762
Labour 7506
UK Independence Party 993

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28208 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12649
Labour 8051
UK Independence Party 2657

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27888 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12478
Labour 4849
UK Independence Party 4201

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28887 Elected
UK Independence Party 10663
Labour 4745
Liberal Democrat 3263
Green 2149

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 35230 Elected
Labour 10059
Liberal Democrat 4020
Green 1325

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33894 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9277
Labour 6568
Green 2212

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12757797/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 26th April 2024