Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24766 Elected
Social Democratic Party 10928
Labour 10411

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24821 Elected
Labour 13858
Liberal 10779

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25590 Elected
Labour 17407
Liberal Democrat 6581
Green 584
Natural Law 182

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 27th Feb, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22767 Elected
Conservative 14879
Liberal Democrat 4357
UK Independence Party 410
Independent (1) 184
Socialist Labour Party 156
Independent (2) 148
Independent (3) 132
Independent (4) 124
Natural Law 52
Independent (5) 44
Independent (6) 40

This was a by-election.

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 24499 Elected
Conservative 17495
Liberal Democrat 5018
Referendum Party 768
People's Labour Party 264
Natural Law 51

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18890 Elected
Conservative 13841
Liberal Democrat 7087

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16892 Elected
Conservative 13168
Liberal Democrat 8568
UK Independence Party 616
Independent 460

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16276 Elected
Conservative 15745
Liberal Democrat 6611
UK Independence Party 1274

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20165 Elected
Conservative 15566
UK Independence Party 3737
Liberal Democrat 1474
Green 895

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25871 Elected
Conservative 17548
Liberal Democrat 1322
Green 454

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22284 Elected
Conservative 16179
Liberal Democrat 2917
Brexit Party 1219
Green 948

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, Wirral South CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12747706/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 07th June 2024