Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22311 Elected
Labour 16428
Liberal Democrat 7179
Referendum Party 2490
Independent 1842
Natural Law 138

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22586 Elected
Labour 14009
Liberal Democrat 7409
UK Independence Party 1242

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24725 Elected
Labour 12474
Liberal Democrat 10320
UK Independence Party 1986

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30989 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12047
Labour 8957
UK Independence Party 2294
British National Party 1265

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 34891 Elected
Labour 9247
UK Independence Party 8579
Liberal Democrat 3418
Green 2537

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 39139 Elected
Labour 18277
Liberal Democrat 3693
UK Independence Party 1896
Green 1215

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 38443 Elected
Labour 14160
Liberal Democrat 7999
Independent 2525
Green 1891

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12754309/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 18th May 2024