Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29053 Elected
Liberal 6323
Conservative 5449
Plaid Cymru 2058
Workers' Party 256

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 33477 Elected
Conservative 5270
Liberal 3573
Plaid Cymru 2085

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 31710 Elected
Liberal Democrat 4997
Conservative 4904
Plaid Cymru 2704

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30012 Elected
Liberal Democrat 2926
Conservative 2508
Plaid Cymru 2344
Independent 691
Referendum Party 660

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19574 Elected
Plaid Cymru 4651
Liberal Democrat 2385
Conservative 2272
Independent 1936
Socialist Labour Party 692
ProLife Alliance 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 18129 Elected
Liberal Democrat 4195
Plaid Cymru 2972
Conservative 2680
Forward Wales 1030
UK Independence Party 699
Socialist Labour Party 271

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14007 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9951
Conservative 2412
Independent 1845
Plaid Cymru 1621
British National Party 1173
UK Independence Party 872
Socialist Labour Party 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 17619 Elected
UK Independence Party 6106
Conservative 3292
Plaid Cymru 3099
Liberal Democrat 1351
Green 603
Independent 459
Communist Party of Britain 186

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22407 Elected
Conservative 6073
Plaid Cymru 2740
UK Independence Party 1484
Liberal Democrat 841

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16913 Elected
Conservative 6307
Brexit Party 3604
Plaid Cymru 2446
Independent 1860
Liberal Democrat 1116

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, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12746441/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 23rd April 2024