Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25151 Elected
Labour 20257

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26045 Elected
Labour 20580

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24973 Elected
Labour 18683

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25314 Elected
Labour 14070
Liberal 9126

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26466 Elected
Labour 18490
Liberal 8708

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26076 Elected
Labour 22417
Liberal 8379

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 35138 Elected
Labour 25664
Liberal 8183

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30886 Elected
Labour 23089
Liberal 17598

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29038 Elected
Labour 22826
Liberal 14636
National Front 763

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

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Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 42625 Elected
Labour 20879
Liberal 14605
National Front 676

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28381 Elected
Social Democratic Party 15931
Labour 10646
British National Party 344

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33657 Elected
Social Democratic Party 15764
Labour 10632

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 37521 Elected
Labour 16323
Liberal Democrat 14119
Green 714

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

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Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24751 Elected
Labour 22354
Liberal Democrat 9714
Independent 310

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20490 Elected
Labour 19610
Liberal Democrat 6693
UK Independence Party 1202

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19955 Elected
Labour 15275
Liberal Democrat 9952
UK Independence Party 1044
Green 928
British National Party 821
Millennium Council 148

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25590 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12414
Labour 10327
UK Independence Party 2076
Independent 247

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25769 Elected
Labour 14706
UK Independence Party 8290
Liberal Democrat 3919
Independent 392

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29510 Elected
Labour 20044
Liberal Democrat 3406
UK Independence Party 1681
Green 1106
Libertarian Party 213

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29593 Elected
Labour 15395
Liberal Democrat 6841
Green 2138
Independent 746

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12738845/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 25th April 2024