Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25053 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 23663
Liberal 3697

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26430 Elected
National Liberal & Conservative 25965

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26707 Elected
Labour 22865
Liberal 2583

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30176 Elected
Labour 23410

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25700 Elected
Labour 25352

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24628 Elected
Conservative 22188
Liberal 4102

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24660 Elected
Labour 22858
Liberal 4349

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23742 Elected
Labour 22339
Liberal 12000

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 22780 Elected
Conservative 22250
Liberal 8994

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 27198 Elected
Labour 25075
Liberal 6393

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24657 Elected
Labour 15311
Social Democratic Party 14592

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25722 Elected
Labour 18768
Liberal 11950

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24504 Elected
Labour 23919
Liberal Democrat 7391
Green 535
Natural Law 101

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28396 Elected
Conservative 14712
Liberal Democrat 7171
Referendum Party 1397
Loyal Conservative 388
UK Independence Party 219
Independent 81
Natural Law 77

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21824 Elected
Conservative 10617
Liberal Democrat 7522
UK Independence Party 792
Socialist Alliance 442
Socialist Labour Party 378

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17845 Elected
Conservative 10827
Liberal Democrat 10368
Green 1482
UK Independence Party 1261

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17001 Elected
Conservative 14588
Liberal Democrat 9865
UK Independence Party 1726
Green 881
Independent 126

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18017 Elected
Conservative 14207
UK Independence Party 5566
Green 2568
Liberal Democrat 2121
Independent 770
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 403

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27509 Elected
Conservative 16006
Liberal Democrat 1892
Southampton Independents 816
Independent 680

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22256 Elected
Conservative 16043
Liberal Democrat 3449
Brexit Party 1591
Green 1433
Independent 222

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, Southampton Test BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12747111/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 25th April 2024