Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 16072 Elected
Scottish National Party 15135
Social Democratic Party 6084
Labour 3150

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 19462 Elected
Conservative 17021
Social Democratic Party 4211
Labour 3281

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 21954 Elected
Conservative 17846
Labour 3803
Liberal Democrat 2588

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 22409 Elected
Conservative 9564
Labour 4747
Liberal Democrat 2398
Referendum Party 1060

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 16710 Elected
Conservative 6207
Labour 4363
Liberal Democrat 2769
Scottish Socialist Party 447
UK Independence Party 310

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 19044 Elected
Conservative 7207
Liberal Democrat 4952
Labour 4476
Operation Christian Vote 683
UK Independence Party 442
Scottish Socialist Party 412

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 15868 Elected
Conservative 11841
Labour 5382
Liberal Democrat 4365
British National Party 1010

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 27487 Elected
Conservative 13148
Labour 2647
Liberal Democrat 2347

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19976 Elected
Scottish National Party 16283
Labour 3936
Liberal Democrat 1448

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21182 Elected
Scottish National Party 17064
Liberal Democrat 2280
Labour 1734

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, Banff and Buchan CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12744699/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 07th May 2024