Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23984 Elected
Conservative 15231
Liberal 10157
Independent 296

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26791 Elected
Conservative 15410
Liberal 7161

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26906 Elected
Conservative 14215
Liberal Democrat 5244
Independent Labour 2894
Natural Law 290

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29856 Elected
Conservative 8545
Liberal Democrat 3805
Referendum Party 973
Natural Law 170

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21129 Elected
Conservative 8258
Liberal Democrat 3941
Socialist Labour Party 826

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18129 Elected
Conservative 6491
Liberal Democrat 6047
UK Independence Party 840
Veritas 343

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18782 Elected
Conservative 10148
Liberal Democrat 6289
British National Party 2012
UK Independence Party 1564
Green 614
Christian People's Alliance 195

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20555 Elected
UK Independence Party 9627
Conservative 8289
Green 1200
Liberal Democrat 1072

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25676 Elected
Conservative 12550
UK Independence Party 2779
Liberal Democrat 781
Green 537

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21516 Elected
Conservative 13918
Brexit Party 2968
Liberal Democrat 1411
Green 791

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12744997/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 26th April 2024