Political Parties


Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 16771 Elected
Independent Conservative 15171

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 34182 Elected
Sinn Fein 1192

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27812 Elected
Independent Conservative 10909
Independent 6059

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25761 Elected
Labour 20845

More information about the 1945 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 36412 Elected
Liberal 20146

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 34995 Elected
Liberal 22685

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33745 Elected
Labour 15065
Sinn Fein 4534

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32173 Elected
Labour 18640
Sinn Fein 2156

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29976 Elected
Labour 17564
Irish Republican 2743

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26891 Elected
Labour 19927

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28668 Elected
Labour 18894
Protestant Unionist Party 11173
Independent Conservative 441

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
UUU Council 21531 Elected
UU Pro Assembly 12755
SDLP 12003
Northern Ireland Labour Party 2917

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
UUU Council 29622 Elected
SDLP 11400
Alliance Party 3807
Northern Ireland Labour Party 2481

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Democratic Unionist Party 11690 Elected
Official Unionist 10695
SDLP 7823
Unionist Party of NI 4220
Alliance Party 4120
Republican Clubs 1907
Northern Ireland Labour Party 1889

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Ulster Unionist Party 15339 Elected
Democratic Unionist Party 8260
Social Democratic & Labour Party 5944
Sinn Fein 5451
Alliance Party 3879
The Workers' (NI) 2412
Independent Ulster Democratic Unionist 1134

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 23rd Jan, 1986
Party Votes Outcome
Ulster Unionist Party 21649 Elected
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 5072
Republican Clubs/Workers' Party 3563

This was a by-election.

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Ulster Unionist Party 14355 Elected
Social Democratic & Labour Party 5795
Independent Ulster Democratic Unionist 5671
Sinn Fein 5062
The Workers' (NI) 3062
Alliance Party 2871

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Ulster Unionist Party 17240 Elected
Social Democratic & Labour Party 7615
Sinn Fein 4693
Alliance Party 2246
Conservative 2107
New Alliance of Great Britain 1386
The Workers' (NI) 419
Natural Law 208

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Ulster Unionist Party 21478 Elected
Social Democratic & Labour Party 8454
Sinn Fein 8375
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 2221
Green 539
The Workers' Party (of Northern Ireland) 297
Natural Law 88

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Democratic Unionist Party 16718 Elected
Sinn Fein 10331
Social Democratic & Labour Party 8592
Ulster Unionist Party 4904
Workers' Party (NI) 253
Vote For Yourself 134

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Democratic Unionist Party 13935 Elected
Sinn Fein 8747
Social Democratic & Labour Party 4950
Ulster Unionist Party 2154
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 438
The Workers' Party (of Northern Ireland) 165
Vote For Yourself 151

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Democratic Unionist Party 14812 Elected
Sinn Fein 12588
Social Democratic & Labour Party 4544
UCUNF UUP & CON joint party 2837
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 1809
Independent 403

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Democratic Unionist Party 19096 Elected
Sinn Fein 13770
Social Democratic & Labour Party 3338
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 2941
Workers' Party 919
Independent 529

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Democratic Unionist Party 21240 Elected
Sinn Fein 19159
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 2475
Social Democratic & Labour Party 2058
Green 644
Workers' Party 360

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 23078 Elected
Democratic Unionist Party 21135
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 4824

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.

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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Belfast North PBDivCon/BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Ireland through Time.

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Date accessed: 18th May 2024