Political Parties


Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Speaker 15153 Elected
Scottish National Party 5019
Socialist Labour Party 4036
Scottish Socialist Party 1402
Scottish Unionist Party 1266
British National Party 920
Independent 622

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Nov, 2009
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 12231 Elected
Scottish National Party 4120
Conservative 1075
British National Party 1013
Solidarity 794
Liberal Democrat 474
Scottish Green 332
Independent (1) 258
Scottish Socialist Party 152
Independent (2) 54
Scottish Labour Party 47
Independent (3) 32
Independent (4) 13

This was a by-election.

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20100 Elected
Scottish National Party 4158
Liberal Democrat 2262
Conservative 1569
British National Party 798
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 187
Scottish Socialist Party 179
Socialist Labour Party 156

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 21976 Elected
Labour 12754
Conservative 1769
Green 615
Liberal Democrat 300
Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol Party 225
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 218

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 13637 Elected
Scottish National Party 13395
Conservative 4106
Liberal Democrat 637

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 15911 Elected
Labour 13363
Conservative 3558
Liberal Democrat 1093

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12797606/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 10th June 2024