Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21456 Elected
Conservative 10166
Liberal Democrat 4371
Referendum Party 1119

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16854 Elected
Conservative 8471
Liberal Democrat 3983
UK Independence Party 1098
Socialist Alliance 469

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16506 Elected
Conservative 11100
Liberal Democrat 4941
UK Independence Party 1659

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15974 Elected
Conservative 14996
Liberal Democrat 6399
UK Independence Party 2428
British National Party 1513

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 16094 Elected
Labour 15364
UK Independence Party 7330
Green 930
Liberal Democrat 927

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21777 Elected
Labour 21057
Liberal Democrat 954
Green 898

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25546 Elected
Labour 14605
Liberal Democrat 2674

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, Telford BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748139/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 23rd May 2024