Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 17886 Elected
Conservative 16305
Labour 15891
Referendum Party 1776
Natural Law 148

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 18627 Elected
Conservative 13074
Labour 10925
UK Independence Party 631
Grey 479

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 21145 Elected
Conservative 14868
Labour 8886

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 22151 Elected
Conservative 15169
Labour 5680
UK Independence Party 1350
British National Party 705
Green 694
English Democrats 335
Peoples Party Essex 35
No party listed 20

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18919 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13344
Labour 7852
UK Independence Party 5870
Green 2499
Christian People's Alliance 109

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24565 Elected
Labour 18888
Liberal Democrat 9087
Green 828
Christian People's Alliance 177

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26917 Elected
Labour 17494
Liberal Democrat 7432
Green 1530

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12757852/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 22nd September 2024