Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27200 Elected
Conservative 22893

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28995 Elected
Conservative 23595

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26042 Elected
Conservative 21080

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25390 Elected
Conservative 22258

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25998 Elected
Conservative 17941

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26139 Elected
Conservative 16714

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21655 Elected
Conservative 15878
Plaid Cymru 4378
Liberal 1594

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16712 Elected
Conservative 13366
Liberal 5812
Plaid Cymru 2093

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 18153 Elected
Conservative 11481
Liberal 4669
Plaid Cymru 2008

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

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Speaker 27035 Elected
Plaid Cymru 3272
National Front 1287

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 15472 Elected
Labour 13698
Social Democratic Party 10388
Plaid Cymru 848
Ecology Party 352

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20329 Elected
Conservative 16284
Social Democratic Party 7300
Plaid Cymru 736

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24306 Elected
Conservative 15015
Liberal Democrat 5002
Plaid Cymru 1177
Natural Law 184

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24297 Elected
Conservative 8669
Liberal Democrat 4366
Plaid Cymru 1949
Referendum Party 996

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18594 Elected
Conservative 7273
Liberal Democrat 4458
Plaid Cymru 3296
UK Independence Party 462

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15729 Elected
Conservative 7562
Liberal Democrat 6060
Plaid Cymru 4316
UK Independence Party 727
Vote For Yourself 167

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16894 Elected
Conservative 12143
Liberal Democrat 7186
Plaid Cymru 2868
UK Independence Party 1117
Green 750

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17803 Elected
Conservative 11014
Plaid Cymru 6096
UK Independence Party 4923
Liberal Democrat 2069
Green 1704
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition 183

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 26425 Elected
Conservative 13874
Plaid Cymru 4418
Liberal Democrat 1214
UK Independence Party 698

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23908 Elected
Conservative 12922
Plaid Cymru 3864
Liberal Democrat 2731
Brexit Party 1619
Green 1133

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, Cardiff West BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12745278/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 12th May 2024