Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23767 Elected
Labour 13885
Liberal 3168

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

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Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25792 Elected
Labour 13968

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

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Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23851 Elected
Labour 12849

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21726 Elected
Labour 9346
Liberal 7351

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

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Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23587 Elected
Labour 14314

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

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Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22964 Elected
Labour 15562

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

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Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27031 Elected
Labour 13772
Independent 1219

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23400 Elected
Liberal 14890
Labour 11412

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

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20930 Elected
Liberal 12488
Labour 11639
Independent 265

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

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Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26837 Elected
Liberal 10817
Labour 10015
National Front 478

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27261 Elected
Liberal 15591
Labour 4700
Independent 318

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

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Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27915 Elected
Liberal 18789
Labour 3720

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27437 Elected
Liberal Democrat 18527
Labour 6347
Natural Law 123

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

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Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20313 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13981
Labour 12939
Referendum Party 4188
UK Independence Party 378
Socialist Party of Great Britain 182
Independent 69

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20645 Elected
Liberal Democrat 14738
Labour 9260
UK Independence Party 1212

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26161 Elected
Liberal Democrat 14481
Labour 6053
Green 688
UK Independence Party 619
Monster Raving Loony Party 175
Get Britain Back 153
Senior Citizens Party 151
Peace & Progress Party 22

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

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Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26109 Elected
Liberal Democrat 15987
Labour 5719
UK Independence Party 2439
British National Party 1662
Green 637
Independent 247

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26323 Elected
UK Independence Party 12526
Labour 7939
Liberal Democrat 4882
Green 2956
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 244
Young People's Party 72
Socialist Party of Great Britain 68

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32197 Elected
Labour 16786
Liberal Democrat 4222
UK Independence Party 2565
Green 2498
Independent (1) 493
Independent (2) 114

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

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Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 35483 Elected
Labour 14146
Liberal Democrat 5755
Green 2706
Independent 576
Social Democratic Party (1990) 190
Young People's Party 80
Socialist Party of Great Britain 69

More information about the 2019 General Election is available here.

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12754840/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 27th May 2024