Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20239 Elected
Labour 19548
Liberal 4229

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23660 Elected
Labour 20464

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25318 Elected
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 16898

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25696 Elected
Labour 14529

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21736 Elected
Labour 11880
Liberal 4233

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21466 Elected
Labour 14881

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26220 Elected
Labour 11753
Liberal 2459
Communist Party of Great Britain 189
Independent (1) 77
Independent (2) 52

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23123 Elected
Labour 16222
Liberal 9691
National Front 1523

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

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20854 Elected
Labour 15554
Liberal 9215
National Front 1573

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

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Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26587 Elected
Labour 15827
Liberal 6939
National Front 912
Anti-Common Market Free Enterprise 401

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25214 Elected
Labour 13694
Social Democratic Party 10724
Anti-Common Market Free Trade 201

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

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Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26235 Elected
Labour 15917
Social Democratic Party 9616

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25969 Elected
Labour 21003
Liberal Democrat 4470
Liberal 1237

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

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Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24657 Elected
Conservative 19539
Liberal Democrat 4012
Liberal 713

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19735 Elected
Conservative 16248
Liberal Democrat 3425
Green 805
UK Independence Party 684

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18489 Elected
Conservative 15610
Liberal Democrat 5568
UK Independence Party 1029
British National Party 983

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 16344 Elected
Labour 15653
Liberal Democrat 6430
UK Independence Party 1487
Equal Parenting Alliance 246

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17374 Elected
Conservative 16573
UK Independence Party 4310
Green 1058
Liberal Democrat 845
Independent 49

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20899 Elected
Conservative 18714
UK Independence Party 1012
Liberal Democrat 784
Green 579
Independent 358

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19864 Elected
Labour 18203
Liberal Democrat 2041
Brexit Party 1028

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12747731/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 23rd May 2024