Political Parties


Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26045 Elected
Labour 22736
Liberal 5909

More information about the 1945 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 36757 Elected
Labour 23088
Liberal 5950

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 39080 Elected
Labour 23871

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Jan, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23075 Elected
Labour 12953

This was a by-election.

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33726 Elected
Labour 17450
Liberal 6626

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33677 Elected
Labour 16638
Liberal 8589

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27427 Elected
Labour 15231
Liberal 12306
Independent Nuclear Disarmament Election Committee 1073

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26512 Elected
Labour 18884
Liberal 10160

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28571 Elected
Labour 16950
Liberal 6516
Independent 462

More information about the 1970 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, Twickenham BCon/PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12740153/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 29th April 2024