Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20081 Elected
Labour 18214
Liberal Democrat 6892
Referendum Party 3724
Natural Law 171

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20201 Elected
Labour 15906
Liberal Democrat 5017
UK Independence Party 1321

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21682 Elected
Labour 12773
Liberal Democrat 7573
UK Independence Party 2177

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24312 Elected
Liberal Democrat 11262
Labour 7089
UK Independence Party 3085
British National Party 1428
Independent 540
Christian People's Alliance 373

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25684 Elected
UK Independence Party 10700
Labour 8604
Liberal Democrat 2465
Green 1779

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31649 Elected
Labour 14586
UK Independence Party 2396
Liberal Democrat 2180
Green 935

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33842 Elected
Labour 10648
Liberal Democrat 4685
Green 2262

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12747639/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 28th May 2024