Political Parties


Election of 10th Dec 1832 to 8th Jan, 1833
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 354 Elected
Conservative 350 Elected
Liberal (2) 293

More information about the 1833 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Jan 1835 to 6th Feb, 1835
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 502 Elected
Liberal (2) 443 Elected
Conservative 442

More information about the 1835 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 24th Jul 1837 to 18th Aug, 1837
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 489 Elected
Liberal (2) 473 Elected
Conservative (1) 445
Conservative (2) 412

More information about the 1837 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jun 1841 to 22nd Jul, 1841
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 541 Elected
Conservative (2) 499 Elected
Liberal (1) 497
Liberal (2) 489

More information about the 1841 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Jul 1847 to 26th Aug, 1847
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 637 Elected
Liberal (2) 617 Elected
Conservative (1) 464
Conservative (2) 462

More information about the 1847 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jul 1852 to 31st Jul, 1852
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 584 Elected
Conservative (2) 581 Elected
Liberal (1) 514
Liberal (2) 507

More information about the 1852 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Feb, 1856
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 560 Elected
Conservative 499 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 27th Mar 1857 to 24th Apr, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) -1 Elected
Liberal (2) -1 Elected

More information about the 1857 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Apr 1859 to 18th May, 1859
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 665 Elected
Liberal (2) 662 Elected
Conservative (1) 505
Conservative (2) 493

More information about the 1859 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jul 1865 to 24th Jul, 1865
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 855 Elected
Liberal (2) 792 Elected
Conservative 414

More information about the 1865 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 17th Nov 1868 to 7th Dec, 1868
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1458 Elected
Liberal (2) 1305 Elected
Conservative 703

More information about the 1868 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 19th Jul, 1870
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 987 Elected
Conservative 550 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 31st Jan 1874 to 17th Feb, 1874
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1206 Elected
Liberal (2) 1144 Elected
Conservative 835

More information about the 1874 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th Jun, 1878
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 1284 Elected
Conservative 1004 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 31st Mar 1880 to 27th Apr, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 1497 Elected
Conservative (1) 1393 Elected
Conservative (2) 1312
Liberal (2) 1294

More information about the 1880 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 24th Nov 1885 to 18th Dec, 1885
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1627 Elected
Liberal 1386

More information about the 1885 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st Jul 1886 to 27th Jul, 1886
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1602 Elected
Liberal 1353

More information about the 1886 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 16th Apr, 1889
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 1655 Elected
Liberal 1580

This was a by-election.

Election of 4th Jul 1892 to 26th Jul, 1892
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 2119 Elected
Liberal 1712

More information about the 1892 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Feb, 1893
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 13th Jul 1895 to 7th Aug, 1895
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 2152 Elected
Liberal 1673

More information about the 1895 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st Oct 1900 to 24th Oct, 1900
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

More information about the 1900 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 23rd Sep, 1903
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 2504 Elected
Liberal 1983

This was a by-election.

Election of 12th Jan 1906 to 8th Feb, 1906
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 2967 Elected
Conservative 2374

More information about the 1906 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Jan 1910 to 10th Feb, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 2675 Elected
Liberal 2543

More information about the 1910 Feb General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd Dec 1910 to 19th Dec, 1910
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 2609 Elected
Conservative 2456

More information about the 1910 Dec 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, Rochester PBCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12755960/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 14th May 2024