Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23606 Elected
Liberal 10936
Labour 6386
British National Party 203

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24903 Elected
Liberal 11439
Labour 7888

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26323 Elected
Labour 11038
Liberal Democrat 8038
Liberal 643
Natural Law 243

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23084 Elected
Labour 18131
Liberal Democrat 9858
Referendum Party 1663
Liberal 720
UK Independence Party 506
National Front 388

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 20th Nov, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 13162 Elected
Labour 11935
Liberal Democrat 5864
Liberal 330
National Front 267
Referendum Party 237
Social Foundation 69
Natural Law 44

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20618 Elected
Labour 15659
Liberal Democrat 7308
Green 961
UK Independence Party 782
Liberal 234

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22183 Elected
Labour 13782
Liberal Democrat 10862
UK Independence Party 1301
Independent 836

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27597 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9813
Labour 6893
UK Independence Party 1551
British National Party 1001
Green 608
English Democrats 223

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27955 Elected
Labour 9484
UK Independence Party 6108
Liberal Democrat 3378
Green 1878

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30632 Elected
Labour 15545
Liberal Democrat 4073
Green 1380

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27282 Elected
Labour 13024
Liberal Democrat 8194
Green 2055

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12757505/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 09th June 2024