Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17324 Elected
Conservative 13346
Liberal 6294

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 16530 Elected
Conservative 10574
Liberal 4442
Independent Labour 736

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 15433 Elected
Conservative 12199
Liberal 2270
National Front 426
Socialist Unity 252

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17641 Elected
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 16177
Social Democratic Party 8385
Independent Conservative 1421

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20162 Elected
Labour 19706
Liberal 6883
Red Front 212

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25026 Elected
Conservative 17346
Liberal Democrat 3695
Green 667
Liberal 598
Natural Law 283

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24755 Elected
Conservative 9336
Liberal Democrat 4008
Referendum Party 1645

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17530 Elected
Conservative 7210
Liberal Democrat 3874
Socialist Alliance 1117

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 13787 Elected
Liberal Democrat 6848
Conservative 6826
Green 1517
UK Independence Party 740
Socialist Unity 373

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15022 Elected
Liberal Democrat 8053
Conservative 7846
UK Independence Party 1138
Green 928
Christian Party 125

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour & Co-operative 19208 Elected
Conservative 7314
UK Independence Party 3501
Green 3473
Liberal Democrat 1475
Independent (1) 141
Independent (2) 97

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28102 Elected
Conservative 8512
Liberal Democrat 1003
UK Independence Party 817
Green 698
Church of the Militant Elvis Party 195

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25735 Elected
Conservative 8342
Liberal Democrat 1954
Independent Group for Change 1447
Brexit Party 1343
Green 1183

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10285035/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 23rd May 2024