Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29039 Elected
Social Democratic Party 16110
Labour 6203
British National Party 304
Independent 221

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33763 Elected
Social Democratic Party 16623
Labour 7494
Green 814

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 35716 Elected
Liberal Democrat 15506
Labour 10125
Green 780

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24027 Elected
Labour 17142
Liberal Democrat 9679
Referendum Party 2105
UK Independence Party 1233
People's Labour Party 259
Independent 126

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21074 Elected
Labour 15471
Liberal Democrat 9388
UK Independence Party 1243

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25074 Elected
Labour 11977
Liberal Democrat 9129
Green 1914
UK Independence Party 1026
Veritas 572

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29810 Elected
Liberal Democrat 14373
Labour 7620
UK Independence Party 1716
British National Party 1297
Independent (1) 325
Independent (2) 236

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31593 Elected
Labour 10084
UK Independence Party 7534
Liberal Democrat 4385
Green 2681

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 36184 Elected
Labour 17149
Liberal Democrat 4845
Green 1814

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33712 Elected
Labour 14092
Liberal Democrat 8596
Green 2705
UK Independence Party 681
Independent 308

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748760/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 20th May 2024