Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29223 Elected
Social Democratic Party 10632
Labour 6214

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30136 Elected
Social Democratic Party 10608
Labour 8781

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Nov, 1990
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 22377 Elected
Conservative 17776
Labour 4356
Independent Conservative 611
Green 466
Monster Raving Loony Party 278
Liberal 133
Independent (1) 72
Independent (2) 60

This was a by-election.

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29178 Elected
Liberal Democrat 22636
Labour 3649
Raving Loony Green Giant 152
Natural Law 112

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26702 Elected
Liberal Democrat 20062
Labour 9013
Referendum Party 1297
Natural Law 147

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25308 Elected
Liberal Democrat 14070
Labour 9793

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25834 Elected
Liberal Democrat 11663
Labour 10924
UK Independence Party 1345

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 26298 Elected
Labour 11529
Liberal Democrat 10732
UK Independence Party 3496
No party listed 232

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25404 Elected
Labour 11798
UK Independence Party 8250
Liberal Democrat 2756
Green 2193
Independent (1) 1498
Independent (2) 288
Independent Political Alliance Party 56

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31919 Elected
Labour 18720
Liberal Democrat 3247
Green 1314

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33346 Elected
Labour 14907
Liberal Democrat 4776
Green 1704
Independent 551

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, Ribble Valley CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12741212/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 27th April 2024