Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20787 Elected
Social Democratic Party 19032
Labour 12673
British National Party 236

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23541 Elected
Social Democratic Party 18201
Labour 14229

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26652 Elected
Labour 21764
Liberal Democrat 9668
Natural Law 233

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28440 Elected
Conservative 16858
Liberal Democrat 4588
Referendum Party 1194
People's Labour Party 196
Natural Law 110

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22025 Elected
Conservative 13459
Liberal Democrat 6027
Socialist Alliance 449
Independent 320
ProLife Alliance 173

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18003 Elected
Conservative 14864
Liberal Democrat 7610
UK Independence Party 1305
Independent 152

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18491 Elected
Labour 14913
Liberal Democrat 7432
UK Independence Party 2004
British National Party 1007
English Democrats 366
No candidate deserves my vote 327
Independent 80
Your Right to Democracy Party Limited 31

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21291 Elected
Labour & Co-operative 16336
UK Independence Party 6864
Liberal Democrat 1582
Green 1369
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 175
English Democrats 115
Independent 67

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24798 Elected
Labour 21412
Liberal Democrat 2032
Green 1085

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25328 Elected
Labour 16766
Liberal Democrat 4132
Green 1457

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748243/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 23rd May 2024