Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31932 Elected
Liberal 16800
Labour 6536
Wessex Regionalists 177

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 34134 Elected
Liberal 16282
Labour 8717
Green 1208

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 35175 Elected
Liberal Democrat 17666
Labour 9942
Liberal 836
Green 801
Natural Law 100

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24425 Elected
Liberal Democrat 16691
Labour 11377
Referendum Party 1641
Green 667
Independent 101
Natural Law 52

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21297 Elected
Labour 12499
Liberal Democrat 11816
Independent 1412
Green 1282
UK Independence Party 452

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21587 Elected
Liberal Democrat 15571
Labour 11249
Green 1309
UK Independence Party 1269
British National Party 633

More information about the 2005 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, Woodspring CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12747743/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 05th November 2024