Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18111 Elected
Conservative 14137
Social Democratic Party 9262
British National Party 316

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21900 Elected
Conservative 15052
Social Democratic Party 6953

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22380 Elected
Conservative 14306
Liberal Democrat 5252
Liberal 757
Natural Law 134

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29179 Elected
Conservative 11637
Liberal Democrat 7908
Referendum Party 1076
Liberal 750

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22377 Elected
Conservative 10707
Liberal Democrat 4329
Liberal 1021
Christian Democrat 345

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19438 Elected
Conservative 8355
Liberal Democrat 7261
British National Party 1855
Liberal 1377
UK Independence Party 767

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18499 Elected
Conservative 12528
Liberal Democrat 10474
British National Party 3239
UK Independence Party 1215
Independent 170

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Oct, 2014
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 11633 Elected
UK Independence Party 11016
Conservative 3496
Liberal Democrat 1457
Green 870

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20926 Elected
UK Independence Party 15627
Conservative 9268
Liberal Democrat 1607
Green 1110

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26578 Elected
Conservative 18961
UK Independence Party 3239
Liberal Democrat 1087

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20453 Elected
Labour 19790
Brexit Party 3952
Liberal Democrat 2073
Green 1220

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, Heywood and Middleton CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12741170/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 16th June 2024