Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18390 Elected
Labour 18309
Liberal 5021
Communist Party of Great Britain 273

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20396 Elected
Labour 18893
Liberal 3399

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

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Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22582 Elected
Labour 17251

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22536 Elected
Labour 17025

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

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Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19076 Elected
Labour 15545
Liberal 5165

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

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Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (Independent Conservative) 18466 Elected
Labour 16966
Liberal 4304

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

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Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20938 Elected
Labour 16161
Liberal 4468

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19439 Elected
Labour 15284
Liberal 10158
Independent Democratic Alliance 192

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

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18518 Elected
Labour 15482
Liberal 8094

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

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Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22641 Elected
Labour 14281
Liberal 5673
Ecology Party 486

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25866 Elected
Liberal 14421
Labour 11218
Ecology Party 521

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

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Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26941 Elected
Liberal 14311
Labour 12669
Green 507

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28463 Elected
Labour 16081
Liberal Democrat 11288
Green 680

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

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Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22962 Elected
Conservative 19966
Liberal Democrat 7984
Referendum Party 1960

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20243 Elected
Conservative 18815
Liberal Democrat 4996
Green 1386
UK Independence Party 580

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18608 Elected
Labour 18186
Liberal Democrat 7018
British National Party 2000
Green 1665
Iraq War. Not In My Name 189

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

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Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24002 Elected
Labour 14058
Liberal Democrat 9890
Green 1477

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25269 Elected
Labour 15645
UK Independence Party 4479
Green 2657
Liberal Democrat 1949
Yorkshire First 543

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27417 Elected
Labour 22736
Liberal Democrat 2202
Women's Equality Party 1040

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27437 Elected
Labour 21195
Liberal Democrat 3188
Green 1301
The Yorkshire Party 883

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12742460/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 23rd May 2024