Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27124 Elected
Conservative 14097
Liberal Democrat 5214
Referendum Party 1467

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 18109 Elected
Conservative 11292
Liberal Democrat 5421
UK Independence Party 859
Socialist Alliance 663

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 17800 Elected
Conservative 13556
Liberal Democrat 4808
British National Party 1841
UK Independence Party 1271

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 16450 Elected
Labour 12594
Liberal Democrat 5989
UK Independence Party 3132

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 16723 Elected
Labour 12453
UK Independence Party 7236
Green 970
Liberal Democrat 828

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21588 Elected
Labour 13858
UK Independence Party 1791
Liberal Democrat 625
Green 382

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 24835 Elected
Labour 9270
Liberal Democrat 1608
Green 863

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, Dudley South BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12747974/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 17th May 2024