Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18269 Elected
Labour 18205
Liberal 7731

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24138 Elected
Labour 20782

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

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Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (Independent Conservative) (Conservative) 20445 Elected
Labour 15881
Liberal 6526

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22752 Elected
Labour 16241
Liberal 6429

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

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Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21581 Elected
Labour 16100
Liberal 8732

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

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Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20782 Elected
Labour 18410
Liberal 7353

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

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Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24308 Elected
Labour 18313
Liberal 6754

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21750 Elected
Liberal 18011
Labour 15267

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

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20180 Elected
Liberal 15599
Labour 15293

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

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Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24591 Elected
Liberal 15852
Labour 13727
Ecology Party 340

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24455 Elected
Liberal 19141
Labour 9542
Independent 387

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

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Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25457 Elected
Liberal 19021
Labour 11461

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25067 Elected
Labour 16695
Liberal Democrat 15153
Green 466

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

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Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25370 Elected
Conservative 19163
Liberal Democrat 7375
Referendum Party 823

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21717 Elected
Conservative 16091
Liberal Democrat 6423
UK Independence Party 944

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21261 Elected
Conservative 15391
Liberal Democrat 8551
UK Independence Party 1241

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

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Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18874 Elected
Labour 17215
Liberal Democrat 10224
British National Party 1549
UK Independence Party 1221

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23637 Elected
Labour 19136
UK Independence Party 4689
Liberal Democrat 1926
Green 1539

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25550 Elected
Labour 25219
Liberal Democrat 1761
The Yorkshire Party 1138
Independent 291

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26453 Elected
Labour 22936
Liberal Democrat 3088
Green 894
The Yorkshire Party 844

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12742393/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 23rd May 2024