Political Parties


Election of 14th Dec, 1918
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 13047 Elected
Independent Conservative 5005
Scottish Labour Party 1300

More information about the 1918 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15058 Elected
Conservative 13057

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16080 Elected
Conservative 10702

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16383 Elected
Conservative 12898

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

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Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22056 Elected
Conservative 10664
Liberal 3385

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21228 Elected
Labour 16316
Communist Party of Great Britain 1000

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20039 Elected
Conservative 15833

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Feb, 1937
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17849 Elected
Conservative 13091

This was a by-election.

Election of 11th Mar, 1942
Party Votes Outcome
Labour -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24095 Elected
Conservative 10799

More information about the 1945 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28088 Elected
Conservative 18564
Liberal 3377
Communist Party of Great Britain 873

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28763 Elected
Conservative 20815

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21102 Elected
Conservative 20833

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour (Independent Labour) (Labour) 23337 Elected
Conservative 22480

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23895 Elected
Conservative 19465

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

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Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24726 Elected
Conservative 16418

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

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Election of 2nd Nov, 1967
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19259 Elected
Conservative 18682
Liberal 2471
All Party Alliance 1123
Communist Party of Great Britain 437

This was a by-election.

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23679 Elected
Conservative 17594
Liberal 3013

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22276 Elected
Conservative 13300
Liberal 7906

More information about the 1974 Feb General Election is available here.

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21287 Elected
Conservative 12423
Liberal 5984

More information about the 1974 Oct General Election is available here.

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Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22293 Elected
Conservative 16009
Liberal 2867
National Front 469

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22460 Elected
Conservative 12495
Liberal 8348
Communist Party of Great Britain 333
British National Party 231

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24615 Elected
Conservative 10550
Liberal 9830
Red Front 253

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23671 Elected
Conservative 7392
Liberal Democrat 5327
Liberal 767
Green 595
Revolutionary Communist Party 108
Natural Law 84
International Communist 30

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23704 Elected
Liberal Democrat 6362
Conservative 4249
Referendum Party 812
Green 683
Socialist Labour Party 501

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17099 Elected
Liberal Democrat 5795
Conservative 2705
Green 835
UK Independence Party 462
Socialist Labour Party 333

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15480 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9672
Conservative 2848
UK Independence Party 783
Workers' Revolutionary Party 181
Resolutionist Party 159

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19211 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12508
Conservative 4224
Green 1048
Respect 507
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 337
Christian Party 254
Pirate Party UK 236

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28187 Elected
Green 4108
Conservative 4063
UK Independence Party 3434
Liberal Democrat 1782
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 264
Pirate Party UK 181

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 35085 Elected
Conservative 3355
Independent (1) 2615
Liberal Democrat 2597
Green 1038
UK Independence Party 952
Christian People's Alliance 233
Independent (2) 51
Communist League Election Campaign 27

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 34583 Elected
Conservative 4244
Liberal Democrat 2448
Green 1697
Brexit Party 1573

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, Manchester Gorton PBDivCon/BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12749284/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 06th June 2024