Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 31240 Elected
Social Democratic Party 15618
Labour 6780

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32834 Elected
Social Democratic Party 17554
Labour 7534
Green 1049

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 34680 Elected
Liberal Democrat 15395
Labour 13508
Green 943
Natural Law 232

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21696 Elected
Labour 18442
Liberal Democrat 12036
Referendum Party 3416
Green 514
Natural Law 152

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21847 Elected
Labour 17521
Liberal Democrat 9192
UK Independence Party 1847

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23415 Elected
Labour 13730
Liberal Democrat 11637
UK Independence Party 2020
Green 1755

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25475 Elected
Liberal Democrat 16347
Labour 8812
UK Independence Party 3156
Green 1103

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28855 Elected
Labour 10013
UK Independence Party 8655
Liberal Democrat 4777
Green 3294

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33713 Elected
Labour 17701
Liberal Democrat 4048
Green 1802
Independent 810

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32958 Elected
Labour 12425
Liberal Democrat 8719
Green 2713
Independent 1493

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, Suffolk Coastal CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12747251/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 26th April 2024