Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23943 Elected
Conservative 18298
Liberal Democrat 7371
Referendum Party 1273
Independent 181
Natural Law 96

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22260 Elected
Conservative 14919
Liberal Democrat 5165
UK Independence Party 713
Rock N Roll Loony Party 327

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17534 Elected
Conservative 16181
Liberal Democrat 7322
Green 1234
UK Independence Party 955
Independent (1) 193
Independent (2) 53

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19687 Elected
Labour 16143
Liberal Democrat 8305
UK Independence Party 2029
Green 619
Christian Party 176
Independent 160

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22777 Elected
Labour 16992
UK Independence Party 5920
Liberal Democrat 1817
Green 1757

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24809 Elected
Labour 22345
Liberal Democrat 2079
UK Independence Party 1291
Green 747

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26536 Elected
Labour 19911
Liberal Democrat 4299

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12742680/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 03rd June 2024