Political Parties


Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27317 Elected
Liberal 15162
Labour 7993

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25126 Elected
Liberal 13129
Labour 8404

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32548 Elected
Liberal 11705
Labour 8260
Independent Conservative 697

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 35310 Elected
Liberal 18566
Labour 3470
Independent 196

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 37781 Elected
Liberal 19489
Labour 4573

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 39524 Elected
Liberal Democrat 18996
Labour 6951
Green 772
Monster Raving Loony Party 392
Independent 246
Natural Law 89

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23231 Elected
Liberal Democrat 16377
Labour 9969
Referendum Party 3146
UK Independence Party 606
Independent 134

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21150 Elected
Liberal Democrat 14252
Labour 8693
UK Independence Party 1126
Monster Raving Loony Party 601

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 23765 Elected
Liberal Democrat 17875
Labour 6280
UK Independence Party 1574

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 28329 Elected
Liberal Democrat 20927
Labour 3689
UK Independence Party 1423
Green 645
British National Party 583
Monster Raving Loony Party 259

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32268 Elected
Labour 7982
UK Independence Party 6898
Liberal Democrat 6604
Green 2453
Independent 958
Monster Raving Loony Party 329

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 35082 Elected
Labour 15409
Liberal Democrat 7855
Green 1571
UK Independence Party 1251
Monster Raving Loony Party 464

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 33455 Elected
Liberal Democrat 15258
Labour 11218
Green 2234
Monster Raving Loony Party 550
Advance Together 47

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12741753/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 13th May 2024