Political Parties


Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26241 Elected
Conservative 25752

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27356 Elected
Conservative 24490

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26543 Elected
Conservative 19650

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25381 Elected
Conservative 18133

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22473 Elected
Conservative 19737

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20340 Elected
Conservative 14040
Liberal 5891
National Front 1778

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 20344 Elected
Conservative 12692
Liberal 4741
National Front 1758

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 19683 Elected
Conservative 14193
Liberal 4371
National Front 565

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25400 Elected
Conservative 22345
Social Democratic Party 8174
National Front 864

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27965 Elected
Conservative 22468
Social Democratic Party 5602

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26633 Elected
Conservative 20606
Liberal Democrat 6332
Green 878
Independent 334
Natural Law 195

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26141 Elected
Conservative 11690
Liberal Democrat 4990
Referendum Party 1892
National Democratic Resistance 671
Socialist Labour Party 635
Green 608
Independent (1) 506
Independent (2) 362

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21808 Elected
Conservative 12559
Liberal Democrat 3264
UK Independence Party 1185
Socialist Labour Party 559
Socialist Alliance 532
Independent 377

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17562 Elected
Conservative 9553
Liberal Democrat 8608
British National Party 2263
Independent 2082
UK Independence Party 954
Green 783

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21751 Elected
Conservative 11895
Liberal Democrat 6918
British National Party 2158
Bushra Irfan of Blackburn 1424
UK Independence Party 942
Independent (1) 238
Independent (2) 173

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24762 Elected
Conservative 12002
UK Independence Party 6280
Liberal Democrat 955

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 33148 Elected
Conservative 12780
Independent 878
Liberal Democrat 709

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29040 Elected
Conservative 10736
Brexit Party 2770
Liberal Democrat 1130
Green 741
Independent 319

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12756999/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 27th May 2024