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 24975 Elected
Belfast Labour Party 22255

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28435 Elected
Northern Ireland Labour Party 21122
Sinn Fein 2688

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (New Party) 33274 Elected
Irish Nationalist/Anti-Partitionist 24177

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31113 Elected
Irish Nationalist/Anti-Partitionist 22006

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 34060 Elected
Irish Republican 20313

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Feb, 1943
Party Votes Outcome
Labour (Independent Labour) 19936 Elected
Conservative 14426
Independent Conservative 7551
Independent Irish Republican 1250

This was a by-election.

Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Independent Labour (Irish Labour Party) 30787 Elected
Conservative 26729

More information about the 1945 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33917 Elected
Labour Party (Dublin) 30539
Sinn Fein 1482

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Nov, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31796 Elected
Labour Party (Dublin) 30883

This was a by-election.

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour Party (Dublin) 33174 Elected
Conservative 33149

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 34191 Elected
Labour Party (Dublin) 16050
Sinn Fein 8447

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28898 Elected
Northern Ireland Independent Labour Party 20062
Sinn Fein 4416

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21337 Elected
Republican Labour Party 14678
Labour 12571
Irish Republican 3256

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Republican Labour Party 26292 Elected
Conservative 24281

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Republican Labour Party (Social Dem. & Lab. Pty.) 30649 Elected
Conservative 27451

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
SDLP 19554 Elected
UUU Council 17374
Independent Republican 5662
Republican Clubs 3088
Northern Ireland Labour Party 1989

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
SDLP 21821 Elected
UUU Council 16265
Republican Clubs 3547
Volunteer Political Party 2690
Marxist-Leninist 203

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
SDLP 16480 Elected
Official Unionist 8245
Democratic Unionist Party 3716
Republican Clubs 2284
Alliance Party 2024
Northern Ireland Labour Party 540

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 16379 Elected
Social Democratic & Labour Party 10934
Independent Socialist 10326
Ulster Unionist Party 2435
Democratic Unionist Party 2399
The Workers' (NI) 1893

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 16862 Elected
Social Democratic & Labour Party 14641
Ulster Unionist Party 7646
The Workers' (NI) 1819

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Social Democratic & Labour Party 17415 Elected
Sinn Fein 16826
Ulster Unionist Party 4766
The Workers' (NI) 750
Natural Law 213

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 25662 Elected
Social Democratic & Labour Party 17753
Ulster Unionist Party 1556
The Workers' Party (of Northern Ireland) 721
Independent 102
Natural Law 91

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 27096 Elected
Social Democratic & Labour Party 7754
Democratic Unionist Party 2641
Ulster Unionist Party 2541
Workers' Party (NI) 736
Third Way 116
Vote For Yourself 98

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 24348 Elected
Social Democratic & Labour Party 5033
Democratic Unionist Party 3652
Ulster Unionist Party 779
The Workers' Party (of Northern Ireland) 432
Vote For Yourself 154
Independent 147

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 22840 Elected
Social Democratic & Labour Party 5261
Democratic Unionist Party 2436
UCUNF UUP & CON joint party 1000
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 596

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 2011
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 16211 Elected
Social Democratic & Labour Party 3088
People Before Profit Alliance 1751
Democratic Unionist Party 1393
Ulster Unionist Party 386
Alliance Party 122

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 19163 Elected
People Before Profit Alliance 6798
Social Democratic & Labour Party 3475
Democratic Unionist Party 2773
Ulster Unionist Party 1088
UK Independence Party 765
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 636
Workers' Party 597
Conservative 34

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 27107 Elected
Democratic Unionist Party 5455
People Before Profit Alliance 4132
Social Democratic & Labour Party 2860
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 731
Workers' Party 348

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 20866 Elected
People Before Profit Alliance 6194
Democratic Unionist Party 5220
Social Democratic & Labour Party 2985
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 1882
Aontu 1635

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, Belfast West PBDivCon/BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Ireland through Time.

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Date accessed: 18th May 2024