Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23474 Elected
Conservative 22061
National Front 3662

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20688 Elected
Conservative 16877
Liberal 5668
National Front 2967

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23844 Elected
Conservative 20988
Liberal 4623
National Front 1385

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19117 Elected
Labour 18184
Social Democratic Party 10362
Independent 970
British National Party 459

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24074 Elected
Conservative 22150
Social Democratic Party 5935

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28123 Elected
Conservative 16807
Liberal Democrat 4043
Green 453
Independent 308
Natural Law 186

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29083 Elected
Conservative 10661
Liberal Democrat 3105
Referendum Party 1015
Socialist Labour Party 436
Independent 102

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23402 Elected
Conservative 9960
Liberal Democrat 4989
Socialist Labour Party 837
British National Party 772
Independent 701

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24015 Elected
Conservative 8139
Liberal Democrat 7052
Veritas 1666
Socialist Labour Party 434

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25804 Elected
Conservative 11722
Liberal Democrat 6817
British National Party 1700
Green 733
UK Independence Party 725
Unity for Peace & Socialism 494

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29386 Elected
Conservative 11034
UK Independence Party 4290
Green 1468
Liberal Democrat 1233
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 540
Independent 117

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 35116 Elected
Conservative 12688
Independent (1) 1753
Liberal Democrat 1343
Green 1070
Independent (2) 454

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25090 Elected
Conservative 19071
Liberal Democrat 2800
Brexit Party 1243
Green 888
Independent 329

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12757396/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 26th May 2024