Political Parties


Election of 14th Dec, 1918
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 11949 Elected
Labour 8291
Liberal 6613

More information about the 1918 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 13259 Elected
Labour 12353
Conservative 9334

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 12218 Elected
Labour 11543
Conservative 9270

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 13919 Elected
Conservative 11586
Liberal 10237

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23251 Elected
Liberal 12279
Conservative 12050

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 31531 Elected
Labour 15994

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 24081 Elected
Labour 17121

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24394 Elected
National Liberal 15392
Liberal 6707

More information about the 1945 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Dec, 1949
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23335 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 19313
Independent Liberal 2882

This was a by-election.

Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21344 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 15998
Liberal 7594

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour (Independent Labour) (Labour) 21364 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 17863
Liberal 6072

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20478 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 16768
Liberal 6029

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21172 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 18158
Liberal 6850

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21004 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 17097
Liberal 7286

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22932 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 15435
Liberal 5291

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20985 Elected
Conservative 19009
Liberal 5694

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25875 Elected
Conservative 18222
Liberal 12961
Independent Powellite 749

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25219 Elected
Conservative 16964
Liberal 10306

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26323 Elected
Conservative 22005
Liberal 7127
National Front 422

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18542 Elected
Conservative 18432
Social Democratic Party 12143
Ecology Party 308

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21230 Elected
Conservative 20921
Social Democratic Party 9109

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25185 Elected
Conservative 20283
Liberal Democrat 7243
Islamic Party of Britain 156

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1994
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17014 Elected
Liberal Democrat 7350
Conservative 5475
Monster Raving Loony Party 727
Natural Law 187

This was a by-election.

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25558 Elected
Conservative 12622
Liberal Democrat 5093
Referendum Party 1785

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19603 Elected
Conservative 9941
Liberal Democrat 3717
UK Independence Party 783
Socialist Labour Party 571
Socialist Alliance 302
Defend the Welfare State Against Blairism 220

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17954 Elected
Conservative 8787
Liberal Democrat 5334
British National Party 2862
Green 695
UK Independence Party 552
Veritas 421

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15682 Elected
Conservative 11060
Liberal Democrat 6948
British National Party 2651
UK Independence Party 1339
Democratic Nationalist 315

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16328 Elected
Conservative 9878
UK Independence Party 9057
Green 1243
Liberal Democrat 1094

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22364 Elected
Conservative 15664
UK Independence Party 1758
Liberal Democrat 516
English Democrats 377
Green 370

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18390 Elected
Conservative 16044
Brexit Party 2819
Liberal Democrat 1505
Green 983

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12749429/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 26th May 2024