Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18756 Elected
Conservative 16919
Social Democratic Party 6722

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20999 Elected
Conservative 19105
Social Democratic Party 4052
Green 319

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22328 Elected
Conservative 19889
Liberal Democrat 3508
Natural Law 148

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24077 Elected
Conservative 12081
Liberal Democrat 3814
Referendum Party 1036
People's Labour Party 389

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17991 Elected
Conservative 13027
Liberal Democrat 3732

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17033 Elected
Conservative 10713
Liberal Democrat 3880
UK Independence Party 735
Independent 734
English Democrats 662

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19699 Elected
Conservative 15866
Liberal Democrat 4365
British National Party 1474
UK Independence Party 994
Green 389

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16750 Elected
Conservative 14186
UK Independence Party 6148
Liberal Democrat 1368
Green 1179

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 23rd Feb, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 13748 Elected
Labour 11601
Liberal Democrat 2252
UK Independence Party 2025
Independent (1) 811
Green 515
Independent (2) 116

This was a by-election.

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21062 Elected
Labour 19367
Liberal Democrat 1404
UK Independence Party 1094

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22856 Elected
Labour 17014
Liberal Democrat 1888
Green 765

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, Copeland CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12745382/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 17th May 2024