Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 39789 Elected
Conservative 12982
Communist Party of Great Britain 1007

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 39687 Elected
Conservative 13862

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

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Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 38433 Elected
Conservative 13701

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 40935 Elected
Conservative 16787

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

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Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 42452 Elected
Conservative 16593

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 43973 Elected
Conservative 14738

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

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Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 42496 Elected
Conservative 18673

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 48737 Elected
Conservative 20792

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

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 41187 Elected
Conservative 13767
Liberal 10161

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

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Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 39603 Elected
Conservative 22243
Liberal 8238
Workers' Party 720
WRP 398

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23036 Elected
Conservative 16570
Liberal 11482

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29200 Elected
Conservative 17733
Liberal 8027

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 32008 Elected
Conservative 18474
Liberal Democrat 6920
Green 803

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25376 Elected
Conservative 10717
Liberal Democrat 4238
Referendum Party 1379
Socialist Labour Party 1024
Green 493
People's Labour Party 330

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20009 Elected
Conservative 10489
Liberal Democrat 4089
Independent 800
UK Independence Party 777
Socialist Labour Party 466

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

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Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19418 Elected
Conservative 10820
Liberal Democrat 6626

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16472 Elected
Conservative 12877
Liberal Democrat 7422
British National Party 2112
UK Independence Party 1904
English Democrats 1756
Independent 877

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19621 Elected
Conservative 10736
UK Independence Party 9963
Liberal Democrat 1487
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 437
English Democrats 242

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

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Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24351 Elected
Conservative 19182
The Yorkshire Party 1599
Liberal Democrat 856

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 19609 Elected
Labour 15979
Brexit Party 6247
Liberal Democrat 1907
Green 872
The Yorkshire Party 823

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12742241/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 08th May 2024