Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19405 Elected
Labour 19384
Social Democratic Party 6716
Ecology Party 266
Independent 169

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21606 Elected
Labour 19386
Social Democratic Party 7423
Green 297

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23042 Elected
Conservative 21082
Liberal Democrat 4886
Natural Law 150

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26831 Elected
Conservative 15383
Liberal Democrat 4141
Referendum Party 1627
Independent 290

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20900 Elected
Conservative 12681
Liberal Democrat 3680
UK Independence Party 982

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18136 Elected
Conservative 12549
Liberal Democrat 5577
British National Party 2444
UK Independence Party 743

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17531 Elected
Conservative 14441
Liberal Democrat 5033
British National Party 2137
UK Independence Party 1481
Christian People's Alliance 795
Green 463
English Democrats 413
Independent 378

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18076 Elected
Conservative 13676
UK Independence Party 9154
Green 1122
Liberal Democrat 859

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24120 Elected
Conservative 18305
UK Independence Party 1953
Liberal Democrat 824

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20565 Elected
Labour 17614
Brexit Party 2156
Liberal Democrat 1226
Green 845

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, Hyndburn BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12755326/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 28th May 2024