Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Plaid Cymru 18308 Elected
Conservative 7319
Labour 6736
Liberal 2356

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Plaid Cymru 20338 Elected
Conservative 7526
Labour 5652
Liberal 2103

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Plaid Cymru 21439 Elected
Conservative 6963
Labour 5641
Liberal Democrat 2101
Natural Law 173

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Plaid Cymru 17616 Elected
Labour 10167
Conservative 4230
Liberal Democrat 1686
Referendum Party 811

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Plaid Cymru 12894 Elected
Labour 9383
Conservative 4403
Liberal Democrat 1823
UK Independence Party 550

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Plaid Cymru 12747 Elected
Labour 7538
Liberal Democrat 3508
Conservative 3483
UK Independence Party 723

More information about the 2005 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, Caernarfon CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748188/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 29th April 2024