Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22319 Elected
Liberal 13005
Labour 7423
National Front 875
Anti-Common Market 834

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20790 Elected
Liberal 10129
Labour 8422
National Front 828

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

This was a General Election

Election of 24th Nov, 1977
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 15235 Elected
Labour 3684
Liberal 3212
New Britain 1127
National Front 725
Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident 42

This was a by-election.

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25808 Elected
Labour 7553
Liberal 6738
New Britain 581
Ecology Party 523

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25176 Elected
Liberal 13760
Labour 4026
Independent Conservative 3644
Ecology Party 273
Monster Raving Loony Party 225

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30925 Elected
Liberal 16242
Labour 5885

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30820 Elected
Liberal Democrat 15998
Labour 7541
Natural Law 329

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17997 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13655
Labour 9181
Referendum Party 1808
UK Independence Party 791

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 15501 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12067
Labour 7107
UK Independence Party 1124

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 16925 Elected
Liberal Democrat 11681
Labour 7191
UK Independence Party 1802

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21320 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13592
Labour 5836
UK Independence Party 3027
Independent 249

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22060 Elected
Labour 7448
UK Independence Party 7401
Liberal Democrat 3752
Green 3263
Bournemouth Independent Alliance 903

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25221 Elected
Labour 17284
Liberal Democrat 3168
UK Independence Party 1405
Green 1236
Independent 304

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24926 Elected
Labour 16120
Liberal Democrat 5418
Green 2049
Independent (1) 447
Independent (2) 314

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, Bournemouth East BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12745035/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 17th June 2024