Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18771 Elected
Labour 11967
Liberal 5531

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21739 Elected
Labour 14308

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21007 Elected
Labour 14244

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19747 Elected
Labour 11536
Liberal 4850

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17841 Elected
Labour 10631
Liberal 8242

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17709 Elected
Labour 11757
Liberal 7676

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21081 Elected
Labour 10526
Liberal 7314

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21634 Elected
Liberal 14183
Labour 8333

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20517 Elected
Liberal 11832
Labour 9350

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26281 Elected
Liberal 9676
Labour 7999
National Front 514
Wessex Regionalists 192

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27030 Elected
Liberal 13078
Labour 5168

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28305 Elected
Liberal 15941
Labour 6123

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27766 Elected
Liberal Democrat 19756
Labour 7082

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22036 Elected
Liberal Democrat 20196
Labour 9491
UK Independence Party 1590
Natural Law 239

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22126 Elected
Liberal Democrat 20712
Labour 6733

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24763 Elected
Liberal Democrat 22302
Labour 4124
UK Independence Party 1084
Green 952

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27287 Elected
Liberal Democrat 23364
Labour 3815
UK Independence Party 2196
Green 675

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28329 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12199
UK Independence Party 7055
Labour 5633
Green 3242

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33081 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13990
Labour 10896
Green 1631

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33589 Elected
Liberal Democrat 19483
Labour 5729
Green 2124

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, West Dorset CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12755454/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 28th May 2024