Political Parties


Election of 24th Feb, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 17017 Elected
Labour 7698
Real Bermondsey Labour 2243
Conservative 1631
National Front 426
Monster Raving Loony Party 97
Independent (1) 69
New Britain 62
Independent Labour (1) 50
Communist Party of Great Britain 50
Ecology Party 45
Revolutionary Communist Party 38
National Labour Party 25
Independent (2) 15
Anti-Common Market Free Trade 15
Independent Labour (2) 8

This was a by-election.

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 17185 Elected
Labour 12021
Conservative 4481
National Front 474
New Britain 154
Revolutionary Communist Party 54
National 50
Independent 50

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 17072 Elected
Labour 14293
Conservative 4522
Communist Party of Great Britain 108

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 21459 Elected
Labour Party/Co-operative Party 11614
Conservative 3794
British National Party 530
National Front 168
Natural Law 113
Communist League 56

More information about the 1992 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, Southwark and Bermondsey BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12736708/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 26th April 2024