Political Parties


Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24054 Elected
Liberal Democrat 7942
Scottish National Party 6023
Conservative 3621
Scottish Socialist Party 1164
UK Independence Party 457

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28566 Elected
Scottish National Party 7564
Liberal Democrat 5636
Conservative 4540
UK Independence Party 675

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 30279 Elected
Labour & Co-operative 20304
Conservative 4350
UK Independence Party 1301
Liberal Democrat 1045
Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol Party 336

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19101 Elected
Scottish National Party 18836
Conservative 9941
Liberal Democrat 2158
UK Independence Party 465
Independent 371

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 23775 Elected
Labour 18545
Conservative 8054
Liberal Democrat 2791
UK Independence Party 629

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, Rutherglen and Hamilton West BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12797643/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 19th May 2024