Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19750 Elected
Labour 19103
Liberal Democrat 7721

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17298 Elected
Labour 16783
Liberal Democrat 4994
UK Independence Party 717
Green 521

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19329 Elected
Labour 13422
UK Independence Party 4024
Liberal Democrat 3649
British National Party 1025
Green 420

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21325 Elected
Labour 8899
Liberal Democrat 6371
UK Independence Party 4081
British National Party 2278
Independent 171

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18981 Elected
UK Independence Party 14645
Labour 7142
Liberal Democrat 1015
Green 800
Independence from Europe 324
Independent 170
The Pilgrim Party 143
British National Party 119

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27271 Elected
Labour 10699
UK Independence Party 3308
Liberal Democrat 771
Green 547
Blue Revolution 283

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31963 Elected
Labour 6342
Liberal Democrat 1963
Independent 1428

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, Boston and Skegness CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748474/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 27th May 2024