Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 36880 Elected
Plaid Cymru 6739
Conservative 4111
Liberal 3056
Communist Party 1374

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 38654 Elected
Plaid Cymru 4173
Conservative 3739
Liberal 2142
Communist Party 1404

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 38007 Elected
Conservative 6526
Plaid Cymru 4226
Communist Party 1819

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29448 Elected
Social Democratic Party 8078
Plaid Cymru 4845
Conservative 3973
Communist Party of Great Britain 1350

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 34857 Elected
Plaid Cymru 4261
Social Democratic Party 3935
Conservative 3612
Communist Party of Great Britain 869

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 34243 Elected
Plaid Cymru 5427
Conservative 3588
Liberal Democrat 2431
Communist Party of Great Britain 245

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30381 Elected
Plaid Cymru 5450
Liberal Democrat 2307
Conservative 1551
Referendum Party 658
Green 460

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23230 Elected
Plaid Cymru 7183
Conservative 1557
Liberal Democrat 1525
Independent 507

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21198 Elected
Plaid Cymru 4956
Liberal Democrat 3264
Conservative 1730

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17183 Elected
Plaid Cymru 5630
Liberal Democrat 3309
Independent 2599
Conservative 1993
UK Independence Party 358

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15976 Elected
Plaid Cymru 8521
UK Independence Party 3998
Conservative 2116
Liberal Democrat 474
Green 453

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21096 Elected
Plaid Cymru 7350
Conservative 3333
UK Independence Party 880
Liberal Democrat 277

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16115 Elected
Conservative 4675
Plaid Cymru 4069
Brexit Party 3733
Liberal Democrat 612
Green 438

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, Rhondda CCon/BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12735595/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 23rd April 2024