Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19632 Elected
Labour 17189
Social Democratic Party 8311
British National Party 186
Independent 104

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20742 Elected
Labour 19929
Social Democratic Party 6060

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21644 Elected
Labour 21459
Liberal Democrat 4971
Natural Law 181

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27621 Elected
Conservative 14952
Liberal Democrat 4862
Referendum Party 1096
Socialist Labour Party 676

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21166 Elected
Conservative 12744
Liberal Democrat 4004
Green 629
Socialist Labour Party 407

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16874 Elected
Conservative 12771
Liberal Democrat 6044
UK Independence Party 640
Veritas 375
Socialist Labour Party 207

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19870 Elected
Conservative 15786
Liberal Democrat 5624
UK Independence Party 1815
You Party 182

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18541 Elected
Conservative 14164
UK Independence Party 8117
Liberal Democrat 1236
Green 1103

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22870 Elected
Conservative 19073
UK Independence Party 1567
Liberal Democrat 1316
Green 357

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19759 Elected
Labour 19381
Brexit Party 1880
Liberal Democrat 1847
Green 689

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, Bolton North East BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12753834/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 29th May 2024