Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25460 Elected
Scottish National Party 10048
Conservative 3660
Liberal Democrat 1719
Referendum Party 294

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18478 Elected
Scottish National Party 6138
Liberal Democrat 2376
Conservative 1960
Scottish Unionist Party 1439
Scottish Socialist Party 1171
Socialist Labour Party 174

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19568 Elected
Scottish National Party 5484
Liberal Democrat 3792
Conservative 3271
Scottish Socialist Party 706
Scottish Independence Party 337

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20849 Elected
Scottish National Party 8441
Conservative 3133
Liberal Democrat 2898
Independent 528

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 23887 Elected
Labour 15108
Conservative 3389
UK Independence Party 1088
Liberal Democrat 678
Independent 136

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 14291 Elected
Labour 14096
Conservative 8813
Liberal Democrat 802

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 17929 Elected
Labour 12728
Conservative 7011
Liberal Democrat 1419
Green 685

More information about the 2019 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 13th May, 2021
Party Votes Outcome
Scottish National Party 10129 Elected
Labour 8372
Conservative 2812
Liberal Democrat 220
Social Democratic Party (1990) 151
Scottish Unionist Party 59
Reform UK 45
UK Independence Party 39

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, Airdrie and Shotts BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12755170/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 29th April 2024