Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24339 Elected
Conservative 18033
Liberal 10543
Independent 269
Freedom 203

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 24350 Elected
Conservative 15398
Liberal 8069

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 22916 Elected
Conservative 21323
Liberal 4265
National Front 1168
WRP 190

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17168 Elected
Labour 15259
Social Democratic Party 9351
British National Party 288
Ecology Party 270
Communist Party of Great Britain 135
Workers' Party 71

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19873 Elected
Labour 15059
Social Democratic Party 9118

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19576 Elected
Conservative 18481
Liberal Democrat 4877
Natural Law 196

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21821 Elected
Conservative 9694
Liberal Democrat 4178
Referendum Party 910
National Front 431
Liberal 277
Rainbow Dream Ticket 97

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16160 Elected
Conservative 7157
Liberal Democrat 4937
British National Party 1005
Socialist Alliance 464
UK Independence Party 361

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14263 Elected
Conservative 7512
Liberal Democrat 6787
Green 1243
UK Independence Party 697
National Front 625

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17966 Elected
Liberal Democrat 11750
Conservative 9850
UK Independence Party 771
Green 624
English Democrats 426
Community Need Before Private Greed 332

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23907 Elected
Conservative 9574
UK Independence Party 3886
Liberal Democrat 2455
Green 2429
Lewisham People Before Profit 390
Christian People's Alliance 282

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 32072 Elected
Conservative 10859
Liberal Democrat 2086
Green 803
UK Independence Party 798
Independent 355
Christian People's Alliance 228

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th Jun, 2018
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 11033 Elected
Liberal Democrat 5404
Conservative 3161
Green 788
Women's Equality 506
UK Independence Party 380
For Britain 266
Christian People's Alliance 168
Official Monster Raving Loony Party 93
Democrats & Veterans 67
Libertarian Party 38
Independent (1) 37
Radical 20
Young People's Party 18

This was a by-election.

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26661 Elected
Conservative 9653
Liberal Democrat 5039
Green 1706
Brexit Party 1234
Christian People's Alliance 277
Independent (1) 152
Young People's Party 50
Independent (2) 43

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12757694/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 30th April 2024