Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25626 Elected
Liberal 14646
Labour 7304
Independent 503

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26163 Elected
Liberal 18816
Labour 6825
Monster Raving Loony Party 242
Independent 194

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25573 Elected
Liberal Democrat 18939
Labour 8458
Green 640
Monster Raving Loony Party 168

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16867 Elected
Conservative 14307
Liberal Democrat 13717
Referendum Party 2511
Liberal 1046
UK Independence Party 472
Independent 149

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19402 Elected
Conservative 15094
Liberal Democrat 4266
UK Independence Party 911
Green 721
Independent 486
Monster Raving Loony Party 198
Rock N Roll Loony Party 140

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18107 Elected
Conservative 16081
Liberal Democrat 6479
UK Independence Party 1098
Green 1032
Monster Raving Loony Party 207

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20468 Elected
Labour 18475
Liberal Democrat 7825
UK Independence Party 1397
British National Party 1310
English Democrats 339

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22686 Elected
Labour & Co-operative 17890
UK Independence Party 6786
Green 1951
Liberal Democrat 1614

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25668 Elected
Labour 25322
Liberal Democrat 1885
UK Independence Party 1479
Independent 412

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26896 Elected
Labour 22853
Liberal Democrat 3960
Independent 565

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, Hastings and Rye CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748383/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 09th May 2024