Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28548 Elected
Labour 15476
Liberal 9216

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33269 Elected
Labour 17532

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Feb, 1954
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20695 Elected
Labour 9006

This was a by-election.

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31931 Elected
Labour 15147

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33575 Elected
Labour 15957

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26114 Elected
Labour 13975
Liberal 11681

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25740 Elected
Labour 16334
Liberal 9389

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28714 Elected
Labour 14099
Liberal 8303

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23473 Elected
Liberal 12655
Labour 10062

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 21294 Elected
Labour 10566
Liberal 10166

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 25873 Elected
Labour 9247
Liberal 7677
National Front 438

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28466 Elected
Liberal 15135
Labour 6243
British National Party 180

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30117 Elected
Social Democratic Party 17466
Labour 7018

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29820 Elected
Liberal Democrat 17117
Labour 9423
Natural Law 232

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17115 Elected
Liberal Democrat 11405
Labour 10093
Referendum Party 1910
UK Independence Party 281
British National Party 165
Natural Law 103

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 14417 Elected
Labour 9699
Liberal Democrat 8468
UK Independence Party 1064

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 14057 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10026
Labour 7824
UK Independence Party 2017

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18808 Elected
Liberal Democrat 13225
Labour 6171
UK Independence Party 2999
Independent 456

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 20155 Elected
UK Independence Party 7745
Labour 7386
Liberal Democrat 3281
Green 3107
Patria 99

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23812 Elected
Labour 16101
Liberal Democrat 2929
Green 1247
Pirate Party UK 418

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24550 Elected
Labour 14400
Liberal Democrat 4931
Green 2096

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, Bournemouth West BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12745047/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 25th April 2024