Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24516 Elected
Social Democratic Party 13008
Labour 9218
Ecology Party 519
British National Party 147
Independent 113

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28515 Elected
Social Democratic Party 12298
Labour 11371
Green 667
Independent CS 125

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29148 Elected
Labour 14593
Liberal Democrat 9528
Green 861

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21461 Elected
Conservative 17666
Liberal Democrat 9307
Referendum Party 1042
Natural Law 254
UK Independence Party 252
British National Party 238

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19538 Elected
Conservative 13943
Liberal Democrat 8078
Green 1053
UK Independence Party 525
Socialist Alliance 394
Independent 94

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 15557 Elected
Labour 15082
Liberal Democrat 10619
Green 1548
UK Independence Party 849
Independent (1) 135
Independent (2) 122

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21269 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13664
Labour 12729
UK Independence Party 1086
Green 1069
Independent (1) 111
Independent (2) 57

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23217 Elected
Labour 16697
Liberal Democrat 3719
UK Independence Party 3647
Green 3214

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27093 Elected
Conservative 23344
Liberal Democrat 3378
Green 1093
Independent 188
Movement for Active Democracy 142

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27102 Elected
Conservative 21178
Liberal Democrat 5035
Green 1549
Brexit Party 852
Christian People's Alliance 202

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, Reading East BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12746829/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 05th October 2024