Political Parties


Election of 14th Dec, 1918
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 15870 Elected
Labour 4621
Liberal 3261

More information about the 1918 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Sep, 1920
Party Votes Outcome
Coalition Conservative 15612 Elected
Labour 6577
Liberal 6515

This was a by-election.

Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 14071 Elected
Liberal 7625
Labour 5414
Independent Conservative 4610

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 14136 Elected
Liberal 11965
Labour 5775

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22825 Elected
Labour 8460
Liberal 7780

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 23rd Feb, 1928
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18269 Elected
Liberal 13621
Labour 8922

This was a by-election.

Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24414 Elected
Liberal 21267
Labour 11952

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 43737 Elected
Labour 12173
Liberal 9179

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 43208 Elected
Labour 25241

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jun, 1937
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25533 Elected
Labour 16215

This was a by-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, Ilford PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12753998/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 27th April 2024