Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21732 Elected
Liberal 13901
Conservative 10563

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28080 Elected
Liberal 11291
Conservative 9490

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30046 Elected
Conservative 11872
Liberal Democrat 7691
Green 710

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29569 Elected
Liberal Democrat 7202
Conservative 6299
Referendum Party 1146
Green 956

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21617 Elected
Liberal Democrat 8516
Conservative 4774
Independent 1076
Green 954
UK Independence Party 482

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20315 Elected
Liberal Democrat 9734
Conservative 5515
Green 1245

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17548 Elected
Liberal Democrat 10517
Conservative 6714
British National Party 1418
UK Independence Party 974
Green 601
Independent 359
Christian Party 142

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19267 Elected
Conservative 8386
UK Independence Party 7014
Liberal Democrat 2407
Green 1454

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24338 Elected
Conservative 13903
Liberal Democrat 2015
UK Independence Party 1483
Green 715

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17124 Elected
Conservative 16310
Brexit Party 3141
Liberal Democrat 2539
Green 1217
Christian People's Alliance 178

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12740633/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 07th June 2024