Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20488 Elected
Labour 14709
Liberal 6255

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23621 Elected
Labour 17090

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24061 Elected
Labour 16980

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24417 Elected
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 15014
Liberal 6261

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24898 Elected
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 16614
Liberal 9081

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28994 Elected
Labour 23320

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33452 Elected
Labour 19310
Liberal 8907
Independent 960

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24367 Elected
Liberal 15467
Labour 10500

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22504 Elected
Liberal 12288
Labour 11141

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29982 Elected
Liberal 11693
Labour 9435

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27039 Elected
Liberal 13258
Labour 4282
Women For Life On Earth 517
Independent Conservative 213

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29978 Elected
Liberal 12896
Labour 6173

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30835 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12443
Labour 7676
Independent 431
Natural Law 274

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23908 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12741
Labour 11700
Referendum Party 2299
Green 514
Natural Law 221
Independent 160

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20466 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12008
Labour 9367
UK Independence Party 1413
Green 1147

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24894 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12101
Labour 6862
Green 1518
UK Independence Party 1162

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th Jun, 2008
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19796 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9680
Green 1321
British National Party 1243
Labour 1066
UK Independence Party 843
Monster Raving Loony Party 242
English Democrats 157
Miss Great Britain Party (1) 128
The Common Good 121
Miss Great Britain Party (2) 91
The Fur Play Party 73

This was a by-election.

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30054 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13466
Labour 5835
UK Independence Party 1817
Green 1328
British National Party 1020

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32292 Elected
Labour 6917
Liberal Democrat 6205
UK Independence Party 6007
Green 3815

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33749 Elected
Labour 11455
Liberal Democrat 8485
Green 1864
UK Independence Party 1154
The Radical Party 392

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32189 Elected
Liberal Democrat 18136
Labour 5698
Green 2736

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, Henley CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12740736/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 26th April 2024