Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25292 Elected
Labour 17610
Liberal 5969

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28668 Elected
Labour 18823

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28936 Elected
Labour 17858

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28186 Elected
Labour 14265
Liberal 7819

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28678 Elected
Labour 14958
Liberal 11480

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28651 Elected
Labour 18338
Liberal 9746

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32654 Elected
Labour 15376
Liberal 12290

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29936 Elected
Liberal 16223
Labour 14987
Independent 754

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

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26670 Elected
Labour 15065
Liberal 15024

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 36697 Elected
Labour 14583
Liberal 11839
National Front 821

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30722 Elected
Liberal 15016
Labour 6439
National Front 416

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32945 Elected
Liberal 15600
Labour 7379

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33245 Elected
Liberal Democrat 14091
Labour 9470
Green 786
Natural Law 210

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22776 Elected
Labour 12315
Liberal Democrat 12086
Referendum Party 2138
Green 443
Independent 244
Natural Law 147

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21052 Elected
Labour 10898
Liberal Democrat 9214
UK Independence Party 1155
United Kingdom Pathfinders 295

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22437 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9467
Labour 9101
UK Independence Party 1309
English Democrats 751
United Kingdom Pathfinders 233

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28076 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10561
Labour 6541
UK Independence Party 1782
British National Party 1384
English Democrats 806
Independent 258

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28531 Elected
UK Independence Party 8970
Labour 6448
Liberal Democrat 3937
Green 2238

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32644 Elected
Labour 10727
Liberal Democrat 4280
UK Independence Party 1894
Green 1673

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30932 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10114
Labour 6946
Green 1974
Independent 990
Libertarian Party 990

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12739310/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 25th April 2024