Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23178 Elected
Conservative 15172
Liberal 2581

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23322 Elected
Conservative 16855

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

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Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18732 Elected
Conservative 17052
Communist Party of Great Britain 928

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16811 Elected
Conservative 16628
Liberal 5611
Communist Party of Great Britain 424

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

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Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18483 Elected
Labour 18156

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

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Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20222 Elected
Conservative 16557

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

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Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18083 Elected
Labour 16817

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17960 Elected
Conservative 15937
Liberal 6044
National Front 853

More information about the 1974 Feb General Election is available here.

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18291 Elected
Conservative 15087
Liberal 4231
National Front 826
Campaign for More Prosperous Britain 86

More information about the 1974 Oct General Election is available here.

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Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18674 Elected
Conservative 18183
Liberal 1811
National Front 582

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27061 Elected
Conservative 19659
Liberal 4773

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

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Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25894 Elected
Conservative 18961
Liberal 6514

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27507 Elected
Conservative 18917
Liberal Democrat 5261

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

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Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28921 Elected
Conservative 9964
Liberal Democrat 4523
Referendum Party 843
Liberal 718
British National Party 544
Independent 374

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17415 Elected
Conservative 8662
Liberal Democrat 8566
Socialist Labour Party 1544
Socialist Alliance 465
UK Independence Party 352
Marxist Party 221
Muslim Party 192

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18269 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10321
Conservative 6513
Respect - The Unity Coalition 2173
Socialist Labour Party 890
UK Independence Party 745

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

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Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21142 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9234
Conservative 8960
UK Independence Party 1675
Socialist Labour Party 527
Christian Party 507

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23697 Elected
Conservative 8869
UK Independence Party 5032
Liberal Democrat 2001
Green 1330
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 331

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30109 Elected
Conservative 11726
Liberal Democrat 1080
Scottish Labour Party 592
Green 591
Open Borders Party 99

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26594 Elected
Conservative 11277
Liberal Democrat 1901
Brexit Party 1382
Green 845
Yeshua 148

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, Birmingham Perry Barr BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12744869/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 17th May 2024