Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 25814 Elected
Liberal 13280
Conservative 13016

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 24961 Elected
Conservative 11510
Liberal 10889

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 22698 Elected
Conservative 21306
Liberal 8289
National Front 840

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21924 Elected
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 18250
Liberal 12891
Independent Ecology 256

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26017 Elected
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 20140
Social Democratic Party 8915

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26608 Elected
Labour 23668
Liberal Democrat 6375

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25861 Elected
Conservative 15347
Liberal Democrat 4523
Referendum Party 1422
UK Independence Party 340
British National Party 319

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19169 Elected
Conservative 13941
Liberal Democrat 5381
UK Independence Party 1223
Socialist Alliance 401

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16453 Elected
Conservative 16356
Liberal Democrat 5002
UK Independence Party 981
Veritas 941

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19691 Elected
Labour 14766
Liberal Democrat 5990
British National Party 1739
UK Independence Party 1591
Christian Party 101

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21623 Elected
Labour 13273
UK Independence Party 7208
Green 954
Liberal Democrat 904
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 174
English Democrats 115

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24230 Elected
Labour 17199
UK Independence Party 1787
Liberal Democrat 970
Green 660

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27510 Elected
Labour 13447
Liberal Democrat 2397

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12746015/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 23rd May 2024