Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 35823 Elected
Liberal 18899
Labour 10787

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 32109 Elected
Liberal 15819
Labour 11471

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

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Apr, 1978
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28242 Elected
Labour 7314
Liberal 5673
Royalist 2350
National Front 823

This was a by-election.

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 39104 Elected
Liberal 12746
Labour 11315

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30737 Elected
Liberal 13542
Labour 6587

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33145 Elected
Liberal 12384
Labour 7751

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32861 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12840
Labour 8577
Natural Law 334

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24717 Elected
Labour 13192
Liberal Democrat 12380
Referendum Party 2355
UK Independence Party 544
Green 527
People's Labour Party 466

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22430 Elected
Labour 12350
Liberal Democrat 10316
UK Independence Party 1547

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27146 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10699
Labour 10265
UK Independence Party 1769

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30868 Elected
Liberal Democrat 14734
Labour 6538
UK Independence Party 2549
Radical Reform Group 266

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33309 Elected
Labour 8866
UK Independence Party 7117
Liberal Democrat 5002
Green 2116
Independent (1) 612
Independent (2) 121

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 35313 Elected
Labour 14838
Liberal Democrat 7401
Green 1714

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31819 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13946
Labour 10226
Green 2047
Independent 1413

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, Epsom and Ewell BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12745746/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 18th May 2024