Groupings of Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21847
Conservative 7674
Liberal 7011

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26139
Conservative 7088
Liberal 5928

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27048
Conservative 7687
Liberal 4321

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28090
Conservative 3589
Liberal 3481
Other 1325

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19181
Liberal 4051
Conservative 3608
Left 703

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17478
Liberal 4746
Conservative 3813
Right 1403
Other 1175

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17487
Liberal 6394
Conservative 6388
Right 5034
Other 1342
Left 356

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd Mar, 2011
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14724
Right 4416
Other 2068
Conservative 1999
Liberal 1012

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20376
Right 7941
Conservative 5485
Other 1415
Liberal 770
Left 573

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24982
Conservative 9436
Right 3339
Other 781
Liberal 549

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14804
Other 13031
Conservative 7892
Liberal 1176

More information about the 2019 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election


The election result data we hold includes over two 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 yo...


ur 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 for the Isle of Wight.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Barnsley Central BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Groupings of Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12744717/cube/POL_PARTY_GROUP

Date accessed: 17th May 2024