Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 32810 Elected
Conservative 6167
Liberal Democrat 4762
Referendum Party 1382

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26027 Elected
Conservative 5459
Liberal Democrat 4649
UK Independence Party 770
Socialist Alliance 324
Socialist Labour Party 240

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22882 Elected
Conservative 7845
Liberal Democrat 6212

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23505 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10621
Conservative 8514
British National Party 1860
UK Independence Party 1306
National Front 599

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26191 Elected
Conservative 8997
UK Independence Party 7618
Liberal Democrat 2075
Green 1442
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 304
National Front 191

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 33456 Elected
Conservative 14172
UK Independence Party 2101
Liberal Democrat 1494
Green 669

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25051 Elected
Conservative 15490
Brexit Party 5254
Liberal Democrat 3241
Green 1393

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, North Tyneside BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12740621/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 30th April 2024