Political Parties


Election of 14th Dec, 1918
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 10237 Elected
Labour 9740
Liberal 3893

More information about the 1918 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 13391 Elected
Conservative 10037
Liberal 5927

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 14858 Elected
Conservative 11134

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15327 Elected
Conservative 12521
Liberal 4467

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21857 Elected
Conservative 10643
Liberal 9381

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22460 Elected
Labour 19553

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22040 Elected
Conservative 16839

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Jan, 1938
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24298 Elected
Conservative 16835

This was a by-election.

Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28462 Elected
Conservative 14570

More information about the 1945 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, Lancashire Farnworth PDivCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12741182/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 24th June 2024