Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 34339 Elected
Conservative 14637
Liberal 4302

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 35261 Elected
Conservative 18355

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

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Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 31003 Elected
Conservative 17739

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29578 Elected
Conservative 20318

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

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Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28928 Elected
Conservative 18839

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

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Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27380 Elected
Conservative 14769
Communist Party of Great Britain 2262

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

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Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20770 Elected
Conservative 13341
Communist Party of Great Britain 364

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 31650 Elected
Conservative 15981
Liberal 7578
Communist Party 481

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

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30699 Elected
Conservative 14204
Liberal 5278

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

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Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 31610 Elected
Conservative 17364
Liberal 4829

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23611 Elected
Conservative 16506
Liberal 9050

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

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Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24794 Elected
Conservative 19741
Liberal 7669

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26380 Elected
Conservative 19471
Liberal Democrat 6870
Natural Law 291

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

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Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28645 Elected
Conservative 10342
Liberal Democrat 4710
Referendum Party 1103
Liberal 580
British National Party 568
National Democratic Resistance 288

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19366 Elected
Conservative 8877
Liberal Democrat 4724
Independent 1703
British National Party 1358

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17727 Elected
Conservative 9046
Liberal Democrat 5894
British National Party 3305
UK Independence Party 1043
Veritas 805

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

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Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15446 Elected
Conservative 11316
Liberal Democrat 6323
British National Party 3762
UK Independence Party 1363
Staffordshire Independent Group 1208
Independent 434

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15319 Elected
Conservative 12780
UK Independence Party 8298
Liberal Democrat 1309
Green 1029
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 372

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20451 Elected
Labour 19788
Liberal Democrat 808
Green 643

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24632 Elected
Labour 13361
Liberal Democrat 1611

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, Stoke on Trent South BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748103/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 28th May 2024