Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26730 Elected
Social Democratic Party 11313
Labour 7621

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29681 Elected
Social Democratic Party 10433
Labour 9422

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29629 Elected
Labour 12799
Liberal Democrat 10208
Green 643

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20605 Elected
Conservative 19462
Liberal Democrat 4477
Referendum Party 2700
Independent 1301

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17738 Elected
Labour 16753
Liberal Democrat 3116
UK Independence Party 1273
Independent 663
Truth Party 223

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22118 Elected
Labour 13917
Liberal Democrat 4719
UK Independence Party 3431
Green 1617

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19806 Elected
Independent Save Our Green Belt 12174
Labour 6609
Liberal Democrat 4232
British National Party 2205

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23112 Elected
UK Independence Party 14178
Labour 6283
Green 1076
Liberal Democrat 801

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30076 Elected
Labour 11204
UK Independence Party 2381
Liberal Democrat 1049

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33971 Elected
Labour 7337
Liberal Democrat 2969

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, Castle Point BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12745291/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 26th May 2024