Groupings of Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19692
Conservative 14600
Liberal 6557
Right 529

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19872
Conservative 15083
Liberal 5868

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21895
Conservative 14827
Liberal 3740
Right 370

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22398
Conservative 8198
Liberal 2891
Right 660

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16901
Conservative 5283
Liberal 2147
Right 1164
Other 686
Left 284

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Jul, 2004
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 7451
Liberal 6991
Conservative 3543
Other 1649
Right 805

This was a by-election.

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 13822
Liberal 8373
Conservative 3768
Right 2125
Other 329

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22077
Liberal 11775
Conservative 4936
Right 3047
Left 637

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28069
Conservative 4707
Right 4651
Liberal 2624
Other 835
Left 153

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 37606
Conservative 6580
Right 1016
Liberal 805
Other 387

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 35397
Conservative 6742
Other 2104
Liberal 760

More information about the 2019 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election


The election result data we hold includes over two 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 yo...


ur 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 for the Isle of Wight.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Birmingham Hodge Hill BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Groupings of Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12756008/cube/POL_PARTY_GROUP

Date accessed: 31st May 2024