Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30496 Elected
Conservative 15069
People 1332
Communist Party 838

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26489 Elected
Conservative 10520
Liberal 6846
Workers' Party 352
Communist Party 309

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27010 Elected
Conservative 16487
Liberal 2291
National Front 546
Communist Party 390
WRP 378

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22190 Elected
Conservative 13415
Social Democratic Party 10251
Workers' Party 342
Communist Party of Great Britain 193

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25832 Elected
Conservative 13965
Liberal 7502
Communist Party of Great Britain 310

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24896 Elected
Conservative 13220
Liberal Democrat 5306
Independent Labour 4008

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 31856 Elected
Conservative 9287
Liberal Democrat 3866
Liberal 1181
Referendum Party 1125
Socialist Labour Party 597
Rainbow Dream Ticket 173

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22739 Elected
Conservative 6988
Liberal Democrat 4163
Socialist Alliance 2638
British National Party 737

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21178 Elected
Conservative 6956
Liberal Democrat 6123
Socialist Alternative 1874
UK Independence Party 1064

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21384 Elected
Conservative 9609
Liberal Democrat 7210
British National Party 1863
Socialist Alternative 1592
UK Independence Party 1291
Christian Movement for Great Britain 434

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22025 Elected
Conservative 9751
UK Independence Party 6278
Liberal Democrat 2007
Green 1245
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 633
Christian Movement for Great Britain 292

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29499 Elected
Conservative 13919
UK Independence Party 1350
Liberal Democrat 1157
Green 502
Independent 81

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23412 Elected
Conservative 15720
Brexit Party 2110
Liberal Democrat 2061
Green 1141

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12745412/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 30th April 2024