Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21895 Elected
Conservative 16686
National Front 2907

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19942 Elected
Conservative 12413
Liberal 5442
National Front 1692

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19279 Elected
Conservative 17308
Liberal 3228
National Front 1175

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15892 Elected
Conservative 15596
Liberal 10200

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18162 Elected
Conservative 17179
Liberal 7268

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19913 Elected
Conservative 17100
Liberal Democrat 5630
National Front 477

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23710 Elected
Conservative 10126
Liberal Democrat 6179
Referendum Party 1472

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18250 Elected
Conservative 8487
Liberal Democrat 4507
UK Independence Party 835
Socialist Labour Party 585

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19741 Elected
Conservative 8089
Liberal Democrat 4386
British National Party 2329
UK Independence Party 607
Socialist Labour Party 200
Independent 160

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17657 Elected
Conservative 10961
Liberal Democrat 4993
British National Party 2205
English Democrats 1150
UK Independence Party 984

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18817 Elected
Conservative 9347
UK Independence Party 7949
Liberal Democrat 751
Green 628

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22664 Elected
Conservative 14951
Liberal Democrat 625
Green 533
Independent 325

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 16804 Elected
Labour 15211
Brexit Party 1475
Liberal Democrat 1313
Green 627
Independent 489
Yeshua 56

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12747512/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 06th November 2024