Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24428 Elected
Labour 13310
Liberal Democrat 12530
UK Independence Party 1176
Green 640
National Front 369
Liberal 285

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21412 Elected
Labour 12375
Liberal Democrat 8180
UK Independence Party 1264

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23583 Elected
Labour 10241
Liberal Democrat 9368
UK Independence Party 1475
Green 1470

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jun, 2006
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 11621 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10988
UK Independence Party 2347
Labour 1925
Green 811
National Front 476
Independent (1) 442
English Democrats 212
Monster Raving Loony Party 132
Independent (2) 65
Money Reform 33

This was a by-election.

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23569 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9669
Labour 7295
UK Independence Party 1451
British National Party 1070
Green 607
English Democrats 376

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23343 Elected
Labour 9779
UK Independence Party 6285
Liberal Democrat 2836
Green 1823

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25175 Elected
Labour 15585
Liberal Democrat 3369
UK Independence Party 1383
Green 1150

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23958 Elected
Labour 13067
Liberal Democrat 6621
Green 1546
Christian People's Alliance 255
Renew Party 119

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, Bromley and Chislehurst BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12739187/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 20th September 2024