Political Parties


Election of 10th Dec 1832 to 8th Jan, 1833
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 302 Elected
Liberal (2) 296 Elected
Liberal (3) 212
Conservative 174

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
Conservative 296 Elected
Liberal (1) 191 Elected
Liberal (2) 166

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) 249 Elected
Liberal (2) 245 Elected
Conservative (1) 229
Conservative (2) 211

More information about the 1837 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Mar, 1839
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 261 Elected
Conservative 259 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 29th Jun 1841 to 22nd Jul, 1841
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 273 Elected
Conservative (2) 268 Elected
Liberal (1) 264
Liberal (2) 263

More information about the 1841 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 16th Oct, 1845
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 274 Elected
Liberal 211 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 29th Jul 1847 to 26th Aug, 1847
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected
Liberal -1 Elected

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
Liberal 366 Elected
Conservative (1) 356 Elected
Conservative (2) 324

More information about the 1852 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd Oct, 1854
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal 339 Elected
Conservative 334 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 27th Mar 1857 to 24th Apr, 1857
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 492 Elected
Liberal 447 Elected
Conservative (2) 309

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
Conservative (1) 500 Elected
Liberal 476 Elected
Conservative (2) 273

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
Conservative -1 Elected
Liberal -1 Elected

More information about the 1865 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Mar, 1866
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 411 Elected
Liberal 349 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 17th Nov 1868 to 7th Dec, 1868
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal (1) 2219 Elected
Liberal (2) 2166 Elected
Conservative (1) 1920
Conservative (2) 1875

More information about the 1868 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Jan 1874 to 17th Feb, 1874
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 2493 Elected
Conservative (2) 2401 Elected
Liberal (1) 1883
Liberal/Labour Alliance 1134
Liberal (2) 1029

More information about the 1874 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar 1880 to 27th Apr, 1880
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative (1) 2946 Elected
Conservative (2) 2913 Elected
Liberal (1) 2880
Liberal (2) 2653

More information about the 1880 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 20th Jan, 1881
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 3005 Elected
Liberal 2536

This was a by-election.

Election of 4th Dec, 1882
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 2867 Elected
Liberal 2243

This was a by-election.

Election of 21st Dec, 1883
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 24th Nov 1885 to 18th Dec, 1885
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 3637 Elected
Liberal 2721

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 3371 Elected
Liberal 2780

More information about the 1886 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 4th Jul 1892 to 26th Jul, 1892
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 3422 Elected
Liberal-Labour 3312

More information about the 1892 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 13th Jul 1895 to 7th Aug, 1895
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 3949 Elected
Liberal-Labour 3075

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 3772 Elected
Liberal 3130

More information about the 1900 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Jan 1906 to 8th Feb, 1906
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 3573 Elected
Independent Labour 2205
Liberal 1900

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
Labour 4803 Elected
Conservative 4293

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
Conservative 4673 Elected
Labour 4110

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

This was a General Election

Election of 14th Dec, 1918
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 12914 Elected
Conservative 11584
Liberal 2434

More information about the 1918 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Nov, 1922
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20079 Elected
Conservative 15436

More information about the 1922 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th Dec, 1923
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19637 Elected
Conservative 14451

More information about the 1923 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 29th Oct, 1924
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20350 Elected
Conservative 15006

More information about the 1924 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 30th May, 1929
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27462 Elected
Conservative 18144
Communist Party of Great Britain 1307

More information about the 1929 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Oct, 1931
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23544 Elected
Conservative 22526

More information about the 1931 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 14th Nov, 1935
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27950 Elected
Conservative 17646

More information about the 1935 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Mar, 1942
Party Votes Outcome
Labour -1 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 5th Jul, 1945
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 31392 Elected
Conservative 14666

More information about the 1945 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 4th Mar, 1948
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28941 Elected
Conservative 17466
Communist Party of Great Britain 1647
Independent 932

This was a by-election.

Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 32746 Elected
Conservative 15733
Liberal 2651
Communist Party of Great Britain 1243

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 34530 Elected
Conservative 17078

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29755 Elected
Conservative 14883
Communist Party of Great Britain 1567

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Jun, 1958
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27415 Elected
Conservative 10248
Communist Party of Great Britain 972

This was a by-election.

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30664 Elected
Conservative 14615
Communist Party of Great Britain 945

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28640 Elected
Conservative 11648
Communist Party of Great Britain 988

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28754 Elected
Conservative 9876
Communist Party of Great Britain 858

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28102 Elected
Conservative 12882
Communist Party of Great Britain 672

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30485 Elected
Conservative 12283

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

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27692 Elected
Conservative 8865
Liberal 5548

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26144 Elected
Conservative 13149
Liberal 4102
WRP 348

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29851 Elected
Liberal 12554
Conservative 12320

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 33955 Elected
Conservative 13493
Liberal 7732

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 34910 Elected
Conservative 13068
Liberal Democrat 6111
Liberal 1116
Natural Law 197

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 30043 Elected
Conservative 7400
Liberal Democrat 4390
Referendum Party 1450
Green 442
Natural Law 94

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 23rd Sep, 1999
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 9641 Elected
Conservative 2912
Liberal Democrat 2148
UK Independence Party 834
Socialist Labour Party 240
Independent Green 190
National Democratic Resistance 100
Natural Law 64
Independent 58

This was a by-election.

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20739 Elected
Conservative 6996
Liberal Democrat 4970
Socialist Alliance 886

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18901 Elected
Conservative 7134
Liberal Democrat 6051
UK Independence Party 1166
Community Action Party 1026

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21404 Elected
Conservative 10917
Liberal Democrat 6797
UK Independence Party 2516
British National Party 2506

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23625 Elected
Conservative 9389
UK Independence Party 8818
Green 1273
Liberal Democrat 1255
Independent (1) 768
Independent (2) 165

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 29575 Elected
Conservative 13548
UK Independence Party 2750
Liberal Democrat 916
Green 753

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21042 Elected
Conservative 14314
Brexit Party 5959
Liberal Democrat 2428
Green 1299

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.

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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Wigan PBCon/CCon/BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 18th June 2024