Political Parties


Election of 10th Dec 1832 to 8th Jan, 1833
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 648 Elected
Liberal (1) 411 Elected
Liberal (2) 272

More information about the 1833 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Jan 1835 to 6th Feb, 1835
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 637 Elected
Conservative (2) 568 Elected
Liberal 505

More information about the 1835 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 24th Jul 1837 to 18th Aug, 1837
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 472 Elected
Conservative (2) 435 Elected
Liberal 306

More information about the 1837 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jun 1841 to 22nd Jul, 1841
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) -1 Elected
Conservative (2) -1 Elected

More information about the 1841 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jul 1847 to 26th Aug, 1847
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 678 Elected
Liberal 596 Elected
Conservative (2) 531

More information about the 1847 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Feb, 1850
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 622 Elected
Liberal 389 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 4th Mar, 1852
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th Jul 1852 to 31st Jul, 1852
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 686 Elected
Conservative (2) 615 Elected
Liberal 468
Conservative (3) 98

More information about the 1852 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 24th Feb, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 563 Elected
Conservative 462 Elected
Liberal (2) 7

This was a by-election.

Election of 27th Mar 1857 to 24th Apr, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 599 Elected
Liberal (1) 581 Elected
Liberal (2) 48

More information about the 1857 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Apr 1859 to 18th May, 1859
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 651 Elected
Conservative (2) 598 Elected
Liberal 518

More information about the 1859 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jul 1865 to 24th Jul, 1865
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 691 Elected
Conservative (1) 640 Elected
Conservative (2) 561

More information about the 1865 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Feb, 1867
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 675 Elected
Liberal 598 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 17th Nov 1868 to 7th Dec, 1868
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1467 Elected
Liberal (2) 1417 Elected
Conservative (1) 1284
Conservative (2) 1217

More information about the 1868 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd Nov, 1870
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1363 Elected
Liberal 853 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 31st Jan 1874 to 17th Feb, 1874
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 1515 Elected
Conservative (2) 1407 Elected
Liberal (1) 1279
Liberal (2) 1218

More information about the 1874 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar 1880 to 27th Apr, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1738 Elected
Liberal (2) 1650 Elected
Conservative (1) 1648
Conservative (2) 1529

More information about the 1880 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 24th Nov 1885 to 18th Dec, 1885
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 2044 Elected
Liberal 1878

More information about the 1885 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st Jul 1886 to 27th Jul, 1886
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1996 Elected
Liberal 1701

More information about the 1886 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Dec, 1888
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 2126 Elected
Liberal 1687

This was a by-election.

Election of 4th Jul 1892 to 26th Jul, 1892
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 2173 Elected
Liberal 2112

More information about the 1892 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 19th Feb, 1895
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 2559 Elected
Conservative 2296

This was a by-election.

Election of 13th Jul 1895 to 7th Aug, 1895
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 2475 Elected
Conservative 2270

More information about the 1895 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st Oct 1900 to 24th Oct, 1900
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 2548 Elected
Conservative 2274

More information about the 1900 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Jan 1906 to 8th Feb, 1906
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 3122 Elected
Conservative 2812

More information about the 1906 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Jan 1910 to 10th Feb, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 3717 Elected
Liberal 2926

More information about the 1910 Feb General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd Dec 1910 to 19th Dec, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 3489 Elected
Liberal 2874

More information about the 1910 Dec 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, Colchester PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12744006/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 15th June 2024