Political Parties


Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 15472 Elected
Labour 11453
Scottish National Party 7821
Conservative 4368
Referendum Party 535
Green 306

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Liberal Democrat 18832 Elected
Labour 5880
Scottish National Party 4901
Conservative 3096
Green 699
Scottish Socialist Party 683
UK Independence Party 456
Countryside Party 265

More information about the 2001 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, Ross Skye and Inverness West CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12748930/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 18th May 2024