Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
National Liberal & Conservative 26560 Elected
Labour 17856
Liberal 2779

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
National Liberal & Conservative 27776 Elected
Labour 17729

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

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Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
National Liberal & Conservative 30798 Elected
Labour 19747

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
National Liberal & Conservative (Conservative) 33236 Elected
Labour 23109

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

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Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29587 Elected
Labour 27883

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

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Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 31996 Elected
Conservative 27267

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

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Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27950 Elected
Labour 27257
Liberal 4220

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25317 Elected
Conservative 18732
Liberal 9061

More information about the 1974 Feb General Election is available here.

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24728 Elected
Conservative 15322
Liberal 7151
National Front 723

More information about the 1974 Oct General Election is available here.

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Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24618 Elected
Conservative 19845
Liberal 4708
National Front 274

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24111 Elected
Conservative 15743
Social Democratic Party 12813

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

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Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28425 Elected
Conservative 13985
Social Democratic Party 10811

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28005 Elected
Conservative 13051
Liberal Democrat 9247

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

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Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26274 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9196
Conservative 6767
Referendum Party 1029

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19452 Elected
Liberal Democrat 7748
Conservative 4864
Green 774
Socialist Labour Party 667
UK Independence Party 634

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18405 Elected
Liberal Democrat 7035
Conservative 4987
British National Party 1314
Green 1312
UK Independence Party 775
Socialist Alternative 265

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

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Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17409 Elected
Liberal Democrat 11602
Conservative 7081
British National Party 2260
UK Independence Party 1530
Green 989

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20269 Elected
UK Independence Party 7315
Conservative 6792
Liberal Democrat 4746
Green 2566
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 238
English Democrats 122

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26524 Elected
Conservative 12696
Liberal Democrat 2022
UK Independence Party 1977
Green 943
Social Democratic Party (1990) 64

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

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Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21475 Elected
Conservative 12955
Brexit Party 3538
Liberal Democrat 2916
Green 1811

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, Sheffield Heeley BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12746957/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 14th May 2024