Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18693 Elected
Labour 16368

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19082 Elected
Labour 17234

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

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Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18659 Elected
Labour 16901

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19128 Elected
Labour 16884

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

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Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17973 Elected
Conservative 17362

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

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Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19163 Elected
Conservative 15808

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

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Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 17067 Elected
Labour 16241
Liberal 3031

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15393 Elected
Conservative 14741
Liberal 7183

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

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16590 Elected
Conservative 13185
Liberal 5429

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

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Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16240 Elected
Conservative 15042
Liberal 4618
National Front 264

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 18998 Elected
Labour 17286
Social Democratic Party 11968
Ecology Party 468
National Front 145
Independent 91

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

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Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19666 Elected
Conservative 19330
Social Democratic Party 12896

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24965 Elected
Conservative 18784
Liberal Democrat 6609
Green 803
Natural Law 104

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

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Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26267 Elected
Conservative 12028
Liberal Democrat 9457
Referendum Party 1464
Loyal Conservative 765
Green 736
Natural Law 84

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19367 Elected
Conservative 10551
Liberal Democrat 9640
Green 1434
Legalise Cannabis Alliance 620
Socialist Alliance 507
UK Independence Party 473

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15904 Elected
Liberal Democrat 12251
Conservative 9567
Green 3101
UK Independence Party 597
English Democrats 466
Legalise Cannabis Alliance 219
Workers' Revolutionary Party 85

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

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Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 13960 Elected
Labour 13650
Conservative 10902
Green 7095
UK Independence Party 1145
British National Party 697
Workers' Revolutionary Party 102

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19033 Elected
Conservative 11379
Green 6749
Liberal Democrat 6607
UK Independence Party 4539
Class War 96
Independent 60

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 31311 Elected
Conservative 15715
Liberal Democrat 2841
Green 1492

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27766 Elected
Conservative 15006
Liberal Democrat 4776
Green 2469
Brexit Party 1656

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12746672/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 30th May 2024