Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25039 Elected
Conservative 13669
Liberal 4527

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25881 Elected
Conservative 16895

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

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Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21804 Elected
Conservative 15959

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21706 Elected
Conservative 13377
Liberal 4377

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22310 Elected
Conservative 13782

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22015 Elected
Conservative 11936

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

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Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21257 Elected
Conservative 13769

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27101 Elected
Conservative 19226
Liberal 10044

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 27181 Elected
Conservative 16086
Liberal 8168

More information about the 1974 Oct General Election is available here.

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Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27200 Elected
Conservative 21160
Liberal 7439

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22850 Elected
Conservative 18444
Liberal 10070

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25648 Elected
Conservative 18613
Liberal 9195

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27763 Elected
Conservative 17676
Liberal Democrat 10099

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

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Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30359 Elected
Conservative 9295
Liberal Democrat 4293
Referendum Party 2104

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22680 Elected
Conservative 8754
Liberal Democrat 6073
Green 1052

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19065 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9018
Conservative 8736
UK Independence Party 1309

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

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Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16023 Elected
Conservative 10805
Liberal Democrat 9189
British National Party 2036
Local Liberals People Before Politics Party 1964
UK Independence Party 1119

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16307 Elected
Conservative 12799
UK Independence Party 7015
Liberal Democrat 1723
Green 1545

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20808 Elected
Conservative 20306
Liberal Democrat 1176
British National Party 991

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24067 Elected
Labour 16105
Brexit Party 2500
Liberal Democrat 2133

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, Bishop Auckland CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12737233/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 24th April 2024