Political Parties


Election of 14th Dec, 1918
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 6972 Elected
Liberal 4817
Labour 4135
Independent Conservative 1923

More information about the 1918 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party Votes Outcome
Communist Party of Great Britain 8262 Elected
Independent Conservative 7214
Liberal 5359
National Liberal 3966

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 9793 Elected
Communist Party of Great Britain 8712
Liberal 4799

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 12816 Elected
Conservative 11776

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16650 Elected
Conservative 7502
Liberal 3597
Communist Party of Great Britain 984

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 15513 Elected
Labour 14714

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14755 Elected
Conservative 14325

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Apr, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 11417 Elected
Labour 10800

This was a by-election.

Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15831 Elected
Scottish National Party 8022
Conservative 6197

More information about the 1945 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, Lanarkshire Motherwell PDivCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12751023/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 28th April 2024