Political Parties


Election of 10th Dec 1832 to 8th Jan, 1833
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected
Liberal -1 Elected

More information about the 1833 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Jan 1835 to 6th Feb, 1835
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 643 Elected
Conservative 441 Elected
Liberal (2) 384

More information about the 1835 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 24th Jul 1837 to 18th Aug, 1837
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 468 Elected
Liberal (2) 457 Elected
Conservative 448

More information about the 1837 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jun 1841 to 22nd Jul, 1841
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 570 Elected
Conservative (2) 564 Elected
Liberal (1) 410
Liberal (2) 397

More information about the 1841 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jul 1847 to 26th Aug, 1847
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 614 Elected
Liberal (2) 596 Elected
Conservative (1) 521
Conservative (2) 376

More information about the 1847 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Aug, 1849
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 507 Elected
Liberal (1) 364 Elected
Liberal (2) 107

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th Jul 1852 to 31st Jul, 1852
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 753 Elected
Liberal (2) 631 Elected
Conservative 518

More information about the 1852 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Mar 1857 to 24th Apr, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) -1 Elected
Liberal (2) -1 Elected

More information about the 1857 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 2nd Jun, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 28th Apr 1859 to 18th May, 1859
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 761 Elected
Liberal (2) 666 Elected
Conservative 544

More information about the 1859 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Jun, 1859
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 11th Jan, 1860
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 661 Elected
Conservative 551 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 21st Nov, 1860
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 586 Elected
Conservative 435 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 17th Oct, 1863
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 11th Jul 1865 to 24th Jul, 1865
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 727 Elected
Liberal (2) 714 Elected
Conservative 444

More information about the 1865 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 1866
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 17th Nov 1868 to 7th Dec, 1868
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1629 Elected
Liberal (2) 1618 Elected
Conservative 979

More information about the 1868 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Jan 1874 to 17th Feb, 1874
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1794 Elected
Liberal (2) 1791 Elected
Conservative (1) 1652
Conservative (2) 1631

More information about the 1874 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th May, 1878
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 2223 Elected
Conservative 1565 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 31st Mar 1880 to 27th Apr, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 2513 Elected
Liberal (2) 2286 Elected
Conservative 2067

More information about the 1880 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Dec, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 24th Nov 1885 to 18th Dec, 1885
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 3518 Elected
Liberal 3389

More information about the 1885 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st Jul 1886 to 27th Jul, 1886
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 3378 Elected
Liberal 3262

More information about the 1886 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 4th Jul 1892 to 26th Jul, 1892
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 3990 Elected
Conservative 3700

More information about the 1892 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 13th Jul 1895 to 7th Aug, 1895
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 4278 Elected
Liberal 3927

More information about the 1895 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Jul, 1898
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 4600 Elected
Conservative 3906
Social Democratic Federation 270

This was a by-election.

Election of 1st Oct 1900 to 24th Oct, 1900
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 4592 Elected
Conservative 4353

More information about the 1900 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Aug, 1904
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 4770 Elected
Conservative 4540

This was a by-election.

Election of 12th Jan 1906 to 8th Feb, 1906
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 5407 Elected
Conservative 4710

More information about the 1906 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Jan 1910 to 10th Feb, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 5264 Elected
Liberal Unionist 5057

More information about the 1910 Feb General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Mar, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 3rd Dec 1910 to 19th Dec, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 5094 Elected
Conservative 4995

More information about the 1910 Dec General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Nov, 1913
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 5144 Elected
Liberal 4013
British Socialist Party 1063

This was a by-election.

Election of 14th Dec, 1918
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 15204 Elected
Labour 8410
Liberal 3143
National Socialist Party 1462

More information about the 1918 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 16082 Elected
Labour 14322
Liberal 7212

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16657 Elected
Conservative 15115
Liberal 5406

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21338 Elected
Labour 18337

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23281 Elected
Conservative 22429
Liberal 7733

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 34439 Elected
Labour 19277
New Party 861

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27540 Elected
Labour 22949
Liberal 2685

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30465 Elected
National Liberal 24075
Liberal 7834

More information about the 1945 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, Reading PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12743646/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 06th June 2024