Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 38367 Elected
Conservative 8972

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 37899 Elected
Conservative 9025

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 34352 Elected
Conservative 9095

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 36552 Elected
Conservative 9259

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 34028 Elected
Conservative 8270

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

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Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 32097 Elected
Conservative 7350

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

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Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 33418 Elected
Conservative 8457

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

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Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 33637 Elected
Conservative 13107

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

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Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 28984 Elected
Conservative 8047
Liberal 7005

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 29537 Elected
Conservative 11981
Liberal 6979

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

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Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25912 Elected
Liberal 11120
Conservative 7342

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 32396 Elected
Conservative 7757
Liberal 7447

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 34269 Elected
Conservative 7879
Liberal Democrat 5001

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 33600 Elected
Conservative 3588
Liberal Democrat 3025
Referendum Party 1179
Socialist Party of Great Britain 503

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

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Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 25360 Elected
Conservative 3411
Liberal Democrat 3408
Socialist Labour Party 831

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 22733 Elected
Liberal Democrat 4097
Conservative 3400
British National Party 1042
Socialist Labour Party 583

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 20579 Elected
Liberal Democrat 5597
Conservative 4790
British National Party 2317
UK Independence Party 1631

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 21132 Elected
UK Independence Party 6491
Conservative 4478
Liberal Democrat 834
The North East Party 810
Green 733
Socialist Party of Great Britain 146

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 23152 Elected
Conservative 8260
The North East Party 2355
UK Independence Party 1727
Liberal Democrat 460
Green 410

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 15723 Elected
Conservative 9142
Brexit Party 6744
Liberal Democrat 1526
The North East Party 1448

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748656/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 22nd September 2024