Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22421 Elected
Labour 12028
Social Democratic Party 11154
Plaid Cymru 1068

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24229 Elected
Labour 17978
Social Democratic Party 8633
Plaid Cymru 946

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 4th May, 1989
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23342 Elected
Conservative 17314
Liberal Democrat 2017
Plaid Cymru 1672
Social Democratic Party (1988) 1098
Green 971
Independent (1) 847
Monster Raving Loony Party 266
Independent (2) 148
Independent (3) 39
Independent (4) 32

This was a by-election.

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24220 Elected
Labour 24201
Liberal Democrat 5045
Plaid Cymru 1160

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29054 Elected
Conservative 18522
Liberal Democrat 4945
Plaid Cymru 1393

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20524 Elected
Conservative 15824
Liberal Democrat 5521
Plaid Cymru 2867
UK Independence Party 448

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19481 Elected
Conservative 17673
Liberal Democrat 6140
Plaid Cymru 2423
UK Independence Party 840
Liberal 605
Socialist Labour Party 162

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20341 Elected
Labour 16034
Liberal Democrat 7403
Plaid Cymru 2667
UK Independence Party 1529
Green 457
Christian Party 236

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23607 Elected
Labour 16727
UK Independence Party 5489
Plaid Cymru 2869
Liberal Democrat 1309
Green 1054
Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol Party 238

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25501 Elected
Labour 23311
Plaid Cymru 2295
Liberal Democrat 1020
UK Independence Party 868
Green 419
Women's Equality Party 177
Pirate Party UK 127

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27305 Elected
Labour 23743
Green 3251
Gwlad Gwlad 508

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, Vale of Glamorgan CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12755442/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 15th June 2024