Political Parties


Election of 10th Dec 1832 to 8th Jan, 1833
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 519 Elected
Conservative 349 Elected
Liberal (2) 225
Liberal (3) 129

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
Liberal (1) 542 Elected
Conservative (1) 528 Elected
Liberal (2) 134
Conservative (2) 3

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
Liberal 387 Elected
Conservative (1) 356 Elected
Conservative (2) 348

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) 360 Elected
Conservative (2) 349 Elected
Liberal (1) 346
Liberal (2) 343

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) 464 Elected
Liberal 396 Elected
Conservative (2) 356

More information about the 1847 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jul 1852 to 31st Jul, 1852
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 406 Elected
Conservative (2) 393 Elected
Liberal 332

More information about the 1852 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Aug, 1854
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 333 Elected
Conservative (2) 323 Elected
Liberal 286

This was a by-election.

Election of 10th Mar, 1855
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 27th Mar 1857 to 24th Apr, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 344 Elected
Conservative (2) 252 Elected
Liberal (1) 180
Liberal (2) 179
Conservative (3) 36

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
Liberal (1) 348 Elected
Liberal (2) 266 Elected
Conservative (1) 210
Conservative (2) 199

More information about the 1859 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 20th Oct, 1863
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 305 Elected
Conservative 284 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 11th Jul 1865 to 24th Jul, 1865
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 364 Elected
Liberal (1) 331 Elected
Conservative (2) 302
Liberal (2) 262

More information about the 1865 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 17th Nov 1868 to 7th Dec, 1868
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 791 Elected
Conservative 788 Elected
Liberal (2) 667

More information about the 1868 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Jan 1874 to 17th Feb, 1874
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 757 Elected
Liberal (2) 675 Elected
Conservative (1) 622
Conservative (2) 580

More information about the 1874 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Feb, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 817 Elected
Conservative 721 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 31st Mar 1880 to 27th Apr, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 856 Elected
Liberal (1) 811 Elected
Liberal (2) 720

More information about the 1880 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, Barnstaple PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12744330/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 31st October 2024