Political Parties


Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18775 Elected
Scottish National Party 5268
Liberal Democrat 3665
Conservative 2135
Scottish Socialist Party 1096

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 24th Jul, 2008
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 11277 Elected
Labour 10912
Conservative 1639
Liberal Democrat 915
Scottish Socialist Party (1998) 555
Solidarity 512
Scottish Green 232
Independent 67
Freedom 4 Choice 65

This was a by-election.

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19797 Elected
Scottish National Party 7957
Liberal Democrat 1617
Conservative 1453
British National Party 677
Scottish Socialist Party 454
UK Independence Party 209

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 24116 Elected
Labour 13729
Conservative 2544
UK Independence Party 1105
Green 381
Liberal Democrat 318
Scottish Socialist Party 224

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 14024 Elected
Labour 13949
Conservative 6816
Liberal Democrat 567
UK Independence Party 504
Independent 158
Social Democratic Party (1990) 148

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 18357 Elected
Labour 12791
Conservative 5709
Liberal Democrat 1626

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, Glasgow East BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12797588/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 25th April 2024